RE: Driving XSL based on WAP phone characteristics

[Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Steven Livingstone wrote:

> Yep - I've been thinking about this recently.
> 
> In IIS, there is a file called browscap.ini, which can help us understand
> the functionality of all the known browsers and this file contains details
> of this.
> 
> Why not extend this to all devices, and mark it up as well. Basically have
> an XML file containing information about all browsing type devices.
> 
> Then, we simply map the user-agent to the entry within the file and have
> access to the functioality provided by that browser.
> 
> The question is, how far do we go? Do we define the scripting langauges
> supported, the tags supported (important in the case of WAP) etc....?
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If this is an issue then WAP needs fixed, just like HTML did. WAP browsers
should degrade gracefully just like HTML4+CSS browsers can if the output
is designed right.

Admittedly I don't know a whole lot about WAP, though.

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