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At 04:54 16/11/1999 , Matthew Gertner wrote: >Tim Bray wrote: > > As for the WML world, the WAP-folk have apparently taken the decision that > > none of IP/HTTP/HTML/XML are appropriate for them without significant > rework. > > Anyone is free to disagree, but they're the ones building the cellphones. > >Did I miss something? I have the June 99 WML draft sitting on my desk, >and while I haven't checked every detail, it looks pretty close to a >conformant XML app. There might be some problems with character encoding >and the XML declaration (or lack thereof), but I would hardly call this >"significant rework". There's the unique binary compression method for a start. From what I've read, this is badly spec'd enough to mean that the few implementations so far are incompatible. Sigh. Anyway, it's the lack of use of TCP/IP/HTTP and HTML that is the big issue. J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s... "Beyond the Idea" ACN 081 019 623 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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