Walter,
Well, maybe, but I know that the developer who worked on the WAP and
I-mode interfaces for the web forum software I developed was *extremely*
concerned about the fact that he paid by like the kilobyte.
He also used it (after developing it) quite a bit, and my understanding
was that it was fairly lightweight.
It didn't have avatars (which I think are cruft; I don't use them on
forums), signatures (also cruft, in emails and newsgroups too.) I think
it (but I'm not sure, I didn't have a phone at the time) automatically
stripped second-level quotes too, which NNTP probably wouldn't do.
Is NNTP even gzipped? I expect it isn't (and can't find any
contradiction in a quick peek at the RFCs), which would mean it's
definitely not impossible that HTML could win. But, I haven't really
read those RFCs, so I could be wrong.
-[Unknown]
On 11/29/2011 12:20 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/28/2011 11:08 PM, Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
In contrast, I haven't a clue how to use NNTP on my iPhone. Go figure.
There is an NNTP newsreader app on the iphone, but the reviews on it say
it sucks. I haven't tried it.
With the teeny screen on the iphone, I would suspect that NNTP would be
a big winner, as it is minimalist (and it is also pretty light on
bandwidth consumption).
