From: S. Mike Dierken (mike@knownow.com)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 10:50:19 PDT
I think the 'WAP backlash' is a mix of the 'WAP as network access mechanism'
as well as 'WML as display language'.
I think that XML as the base content language with templates that generate
UI/display will be more and more widespread - but that doesn't require
WAP-as-network-protocol.
Mike
PS
I also think that XSLT is difficult for complex transformations that are
common when generating rich/complex HTML pages - a procedural language is
more suited. The XSLT that people write to do the complex transformations is
turning into procedural code - if/then/else, switch/case, sub-functions,
etc. It would make more sense just to use a scripting language for this. I
think the ASP/JSP model will continue to be popular, and will grow if
somebody adds a template engine that selects different template files based
on the device (user-agent).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rbfar@ebuilt.com [mailto:rbfar@ebuilt.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 10:32 AM
> To: fork@xent.com; B.K. DeLong
> Subject: Re: [Wash Post] The WAP backlash continues...
>
>
> But don't you think that content will get pushed into XML and HTML will be
> generated from XML?
>
> That way, all you need to do is create content in XML and build
> XSL's on the
> top of it to spit out HTML, WML, or whatever.... (I know this is really
> obvious and I'm probably missing something...)
>
> R
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong@pobox.com>
> To: <fork@xent.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Wash Post] The WAP backlash continues...
>
>
> > At 07:34 AM 9/15/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> > >What was once a radical position is now conventional wisdom.
> BTW, Rohit
> > >seems to love his new Nokia 8260. Why the heck did he put up with that
> > >piece of junk Nextel for so long? Oh yeah, they lock you into a number
> > >and you're stuck with it unless you're willing to endure the pain of a
> > >migration. Rohit's new cell number FYI is 206-465-4936.
> Don't call him
> > >right now, though, he's sleeping after a long night of debugging... :)
> >
> > I still remember attending an XML DevCon and being a "plant" in the
> > audience asking questions like "What do you think about Web developers
> > having to author pages in HTML (XHTML) and then another in WML?" or
> "Wasn't
> > WAP a business model" and my favorite "Do you see WAP being merged into
> > HTTP and WML becoming an XHTML extension?" I think I asked some of the
> same
> > questions at WWW9 as well.
> >
> >
> > --
> > B.K. DeLong
> > Research Lead
> > ZOT Group
> >
> > 617.542.5335 ext. 204
> > bkdelong@zotgroup.com
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