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WAP Forum Adopts XHTML For WAP 2.0

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ever-changing-specifications dept.

earache writes: "This story at Infoworld.com talks about how the WAP forum is moving away from WML and adopting XHTML as the markup of choice for WAP 2.0."

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  1. Remove WML? Naah. by Palainen · · Score: 4

    Whoever wrote this at InfoWorld clearly wasn't at the WAP Forum. The consensus has been for over a year to get rid of all the stuff that was reinvented and use standards instead where appropriate; examples of this include replacing the WSP/WTP/WDP stack with wTCP. But this is the first I have ever seen about replacing WML, and I am very sceptical that it will happen in WAP 2.0.

    Sure, there has been workshops on XHTML regularly at the Forum, and there's lots of interesting discussion, but give me a draft spec and some rally around it, and then I'll start believing it's going to happen.

    Right now I don't. Not for WAP-NG, anyway (commonly branded WAP 2.0, although that version number decision lies with a committee).

    There's tons of different interests trying to rubberstamp lots of different technologies as part of WAP. This is half politics, half paperwork diving, and 10% technology. Over 600 member companies are trying to further their own business interests by influencing the WAP Forum. The result can only be described as... well, look at any parliament and you'll see the same effect in operation.

    XHTML may be interesting for now, but WAP-NG is going to throw away the reinvention and stick to standards where available, not add new unknowns.