First of all, this doesn't sound very stateless. It may be good for a video
game that requires no internet state, but how would your Palm architecture
handle multiple simultaneous users?
Secondly saying "stay away from wap" is the worst advice you are ever going
to give anyone. That is like saying don't program for Netscape or don't
learn Java because it takes too long to code. The fact is, WAP is the
second gold rush. The train is leaving with or without you. And yes just
like HTML you have to program for different browsers. The dream of
standardization is exactly that, a dream. I am also very bullish on Palm,
however I am not going to paint my self into a corner with only one wireless
solution. Companies with only one solution of anything are going to join
the pile of dot gones.
Last, exactly what tweaking of your servers did you have to reconfigure? I
have now put up several WAP sites and have yet to reconfigure anything. One
of the WAP sites was a porn site that required simulated full motion video.
You can do just about everything in WAP that you can do in HTML save killer
UI. And once more if you are using coldfusion I am guessing all the work is
being done server side anyway so repurposing data is just a matter of
syntax.
Becareful about staying away from new technologies. It is way better to
have experience in all technologies, than to wake up one day and realize no
one likes your betamax. WAP is a no brainer, it is already widely used. If
you or your company have not invested time into developing for WAP, perhaps
you should. My last three clients I took over from other CF development
corporations because they did not have a wireless solution or they only had
one. Long ago it was easy to convince a client to use one technology over
another if that is all you knew. Now clients are much more informed. If
you say our only wireless solution is Palm and that is what we are going to
build for you, you are going to have clients that take your scope document
elsewhere.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Chowdhury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: RE: Wireless
> Yeah, stay away from WAP. What a bogus thing that is. We're doing wireless
> gaming and have standardised on Palm.net architecture. Basically you have
an
> HTML browser but you download all the graphics to the palm at the very
> beginning using a Hotsync. After this all you do is send the palm an html
> page referencing the graphics that are already loaded on the palm. The
> upshot of this is that you can deliver nice rich looking pages with pretty
> sophisticated functionality just by sending a "web clipping" that contains
> text and links to graphics already on the palm. Our pages are about 2k
each
> which really isn't bad. In addition, any static pages like rules, privacy
> can also be downloaded just once and then stored using a hotsync along
with
> the graphics.
>
> Because you're using HTML you don't have to really tweak your servers or
> configs like you would with wap, and you can repurpose all your current
> content.
>
> ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick Lamb
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:24 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Wireless
>
>
> Any of you guys have any recommendations for building cf apps for wireless
> clients (connecting between 14 and 16 kbps)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
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