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The author states that people won't be using HTML, they'll be using SMS, MMS, or WAP. This is reasonable, but the author doesn't seem to understand that SMS (a
by Perceval 17y ago
The author states that people won't be using HTML, they'll be using SMS, MMS, or WAP. This is reasonable, but the author doesn't seem to understand that SMS (and the MMS extension of SMS) and WAP are protocols, whereas HTML is a markup language.
Perhaps a better dichotomy might be, "the next 4 billion connected won't be using HTML, they'll be using WML," or "the next 4 billion connected won't be using HTTP, they'll be using SMS/WAP."
But mixing up protocols and markup languages makes the author look like they don't understand the topic they're writing about.
- borism 17y agoBut that's not the topic author is writing about!
- smhinsey 17y agoWAP strikes me as an odd horse to hitch your wagon to in the first place. It may be that it's popular elsewhere, but I haven't had a phone that relied on a WAP browser since maybe 2002, and between iPhone, Android, Pre, WinMo, and Blackberry, I don't think most of them even support it, let alone rely on it.
- borism 17y agoMost of the mobiles built in the last few years support HTML quite well, but as you may know pure HTML is very little part of what we call Web (2.0) today.
- smhinsey 17y agoYeah, I am just thinking about all of the phones that have browsers sophisticated to handle most modern web apps. Even if the built ins can't handle it, you've got Opera which probably can. 3 of the ones I mentioned are even webkit-based. This seems the way of the future, not WAP.
- borism 17y agoBut why would someone in the developed world need Web 2.0? They're not spoiled by PC interface, so they won't require interface on the tiny (smart)phone screen to be alike.
- smhinsey 17y agoI can see that angle of it, but it just seems more to me that you're better off sticking with markup the most clients can understand. I'm not too familiar with programming for low phones (or phones at all for that matter) but it doesn't strike me as unreasonable that even the low end will start to have webkit derived browsers over the next several years. I do admit to knowing nothing about how long that takes to filter its way down to the developing world.