Re: Strict DTD a new twist

It sounds (so far) like we are split between the idea that these little
devises are not really going to take off, and the idea that we will indeed
need to create "special" pages for them.

Personally, my crystal ball is a little foggy on this one.

I can see a solid market segment for them (traveling corporate types), but
I can also see a lot of frustration associated with their use ("normal" web
sites on a 2X2 screen) that could easily render them to much of a pain to
be worth using.

I guess browser detect scrips are for the most part reliable enough to be
*able* to detect the viewer agent, but are our customers willing to spend
the money to have a dynamically generated web site built . . . I think not
- in most cases.

SO . . . 

Where are we headed?

I vote for public access terminals. Deployed conceptually like pay phones
are now.

I think this is an easy intellectual leap. I also think those "mini
browsers" will actually help further this idea. Hey, even if my company
GAVE me one of these devises, I have the feeling I would be willing to pay
$10.00 for 30 minutes on a "normal" size terminal pretty quickly after
trying to read a normal web site on a 2X2 screen!

Huuummmmm.

I gotta go. I have an idea to flesh out :-)
Fuzzy.
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