Heiko wrote:
>Isnt WAP a stupid idea to devide the net ??
No, and when you're looking at tiny monochrome displays it makes sense to
place limitations on content. UK mobile phones ( and US ones I think) have a
small amount of memory and are expensive to use so downloading normal HTML
and graphics files would be impractical.
WAP won't divide the net anyway...it's just a new form of content. There's
no reason to reject new forms of web content, if we did the web would never
evolve.
I personally like WAP...the Fluxlist WAP Gallery looks very cool on a real
phone.......most of all it's fun and these days ordinary HTML has been
around too long to be referred to as fun.
Heiko also wrote:
>The japanese show, that handheld browsers can display ordinary html as
well (most successfull ISP in japan, millions of satisfied customers..)<
The Japanese are prepared to pay large amounts of money to do this. WAP
sites can be viewed on a Pay-as-you-go mobile phone (one where you buy
vouchers to charge up the phone), you can buy these in the supermarket in
England for as little as £30..that's affordable to most ordinary people.
WAP's practical.
Anyway, no doubt all this is debatable. But there is a certain appeal to new
browsing forms.
cheers,
Sol.
