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Can you link to something or explain what that is for those of us not familiar?

• busterarm 6y ago
  https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/before-there-were-smartphones-there-was-i-mode/ https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/before-there-were-smartphones... https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-7908-1746-5_17 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-7908-1746-5_17 https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-are-they-now-i-mode/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-are-they-now-i-mode/
• resoluteteeth 6y ago
  It was basically the Japanese equivalent of WAP before smartphones but it's completely irrelevant now and even when it was a thing, I'm not sure it was relevant to desktop sites like this article is talking about.
  • busterarm 6y ago
    i-mode usage peaked in 2008. While it has been falling since, it probably only became irrelevant around the time this was written. A lot of the Japanese sites that I visit(ed) were designed for i-Mode first/only as late as 2011.
    • resoluteteeth 6y ago
      My understanding that i-mode markup was very limited and didn't include tables or css, so I don't think it would be possible for desktop sites from 2011 to have been designed for i-mode first. Common Japanese sites for desktop browsers from this period as described in the original article were extremely cluttered in a way that would have been completely impossible to read on a feature phone with i-mode. I believe that as with WAP, it was necessary to have completely separate i-mode sites, so I don't think the front end rendering of one would necessarily affect the other even if companies like Yahoo Japan were serving similar content over both.
• folli 6y ago
  Essentially a beefed up version of WAP