Posted by SpaceGirl on 10/05/07 13:34

On Oct 5, 2:18 pm, Phil Payne <p...@isham-research.co.uk> wrote:

> WML/WAP was the exciting technology of the future that would take over
> from everything. Now dead.

Yep, because the platform changed. Most modern mobile devices can
render full XHTML, so it became irrelevant.

> > > What he's ignoring is that most web surfing is NOT done on phones.
>
> Five years ago most web surfing was not done on broadband. WiFi was
> an unknown technology.

The world moves on...

> > yes. And that many smart phone are actually Flash enabled too.
>
> Flash Lite is to Flash as WML is to XHTML/CSS. And anyway - why do
> everything THREE times? Once for the Flash enabled, once for those
> who can't use Flash even if they want to (see the original subject of
> this thread - it's a LEGAL requirement in the UK to provide an
> alternative under the Disability Discrimination Act) and again for
> Flash Lite.

Or build web sites the way they should be build. Your application,
data and UI layers are completely separated so it doesn't matter what
presentation technology you use.

> Why not do it just once?
>
> > > also, I can't help it if his phone is old and obsolete. Maybe he needs
> > > to get an updated one.
>
> He he. I'm in the UK, you idiot.

So am I (Scotland)... I have a 3G broadband phone and in a few weeks
an iPhone. The networks here in the UK are ahead of the US, for
example.

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