Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:24:38 -0500
From: David Allen <s2mdalle@titan.vcu.edu>
To: gopher@complete.org
Subject: [gopher] Re: An idea
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:32:24PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> Jeff Licquia, one of my coworkers, told me that gopher is suspiciously
> like WAP, which is used on some cellphones that I don't own :-)  He
> suggested a wap-to-gopher gateway along the lines of the heatdeath.org
> web to gopher gateway.  Sound doable?  Useful?  Feasible?

I think it's doable, useful, and feasible.  I've been reading a bit
recently on java servlets and WML.  From what I gather, WML is a
certain DTD for XML which defines documents as a series of cards.  So
one page might be split up into any number of cards, with navigation
between cards.

I'm not sure exactly what the details are on the display of certain
devices used with WAP, but formatting text into a WML document should
be pretty easy if you can figure out how many lines/card and how many
chars/line are needed.

As far as I know though, WAP isn't used much right now because
wireless time is still obscenely expensive.  I'd find out, but I
refuse to let my boss give me a cell phone, since I like what little
sleep I get.  :)

-- 
David Allen
http://opop.nols.com/
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