Re: Transforming HTML to WML

Subject: Re: Transforming HTML to WML
From: Dylan Walsh <Dylan.Walsh@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:37:20 -0000
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:57:47 +0200
>From: "Oren Ben-Kiki" <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Transforming HTML to WML
>
>Peter Stark <stark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Surfing "normal" HTML pages has never been an interesting enough use
case.
>> You don't *want* to see the same page on your phone as you see on
your PC.
>> On the PC you expect a lot more, on a phone you just want the
information
>> you are looking for (no more and no less).
>
>"Just the information you need". I like it :-) If this becomes popular,
I'd
>be most interested in a WML client to install on my PC. Bandwidth today
(at
>least in this part of the world) is such that all the useless bells and
>whistles people put in web site are more annoying then entertaining.
Using
>Lynx isn't quite it; the HTML pages aren't designed for such "dumbing
down"
>and besides, I'd still like to see a bitmap display with better font
>support, minimal color use, etc. WML might be just the thing.
>
>Have fun,
>
>    Oren Ben-Kiki

You can use the Nokia WAP Toolkit to view WAP sites on the internet, on
your PC.


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