- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:24:51 -0500 (EST)
- To: Tayeb.Lemlouma@inrialpes.fr (Tayeb Lemlouma)
- Cc: www-mobile@w3.org
> Two questions arise here: > > 1) How can content servers achieve the acquisition of a complete image > of the characteristics of clients, documents, network, etc.? I don't know that "complete" is a necessary goal for what you want to achieve. Certainly, there would definitely be some minimum amount of information that a server or intermediary would need to have in order to do a reasonable job. But in between those two extremes, there's useful adaptation happening. And the more information that is available, the better that adaptation will be. > 2) How can we apply the matching of all these descriptions in order to > end with an adapted service or content that meet after all the user > preferences and capabilities. ? Without plugging my company's products too hard, I like to think that application routing is a perfect tool for this task. Using some basic routing primitives, one can compose local filtering rules into a routing mesh that implements the composite of all those rules. For example, you might have the following local rules which you declare independantly; - WML content gets translated to XHTML Basic - English content gets translated to French The resultant mesh would take any English WML and produce French XHTML Basic. Other rules can added incrementally while preserving the integrity of the existing rules. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2002 23:20:28 UTC