David Fedor wrote:
> >But presumably all devices from Palm Pro and up can utilize a wireless
> >modem and thus be perfect candidates for WAP.
>
> Well, yes, but that doesn't mean it should be in the rom of every device.
> The "kitchen sink" philosophy leads to huge rom images, increased testing
> and development time for the OS releases, complexity for the users, and so
> forth (for examples, see our competitors). Not to mention higher costs and
> physical manufacturing issues due to requiring larger rom chips.
Please note that this was done on the Newton and was one of the things that
killed it. You need it that bad, put it in a shared library. A WAP shared
library would be an excellent implementation of this stack on the Palm.
Steve
