Disney exec. tests cellular posting;
Why WAP is crap
Dr. Eric Freeman, a director of engineering in the advanced technology team of the Walt Disney Internet Group, has tested sending a Weblog entry from his cellular phone.
Freeman also has a Weblog entry on "The Real Reason WAP is Crap." The bottom line is different phones support different WAP features. It drives Disney, and other content developers, crazy because developers have to think about the mechanics of WAP implementation on every phone version. Freeman says it's going to get worse as cellular operators and handset vendors offer new features to differentiante themselves. The solution, he says, is a "platform" with "consistent syntax and semantics."
My view is that with WAP, Microsoft's flavors of Windows CE for PDAs and so-called smartphones, various flavors of Java and Symbian's EPOC32, the environment for developers is getting much worse rather than better.
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