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Rob Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:45 +0100, Jess Hampshire wrote:
>
>> > seen with any type of browsing at all these days have normal web
>> > browsers - and if they don't come with one, they can usually run Opera
>> > mini. And with good reason: WAP's awful.
>>
>> It may be awful, but not as bad as trying to use sites like normal
>> ebay on a mobile. (And also a low spec risc os system)
>
> If your problem is with using sites like eBay on a low-spec RISC OS
> system (which ones aren't low-spec?) then my suggestion is to buy a
> higher-spec machine.
I generally use ebay on my mac at home. Ebay isn't very good on
netsurf, and the WML site woulod be nice to have access to.
The low spec machine I use is a Mico on my parents' broadband.
Replacing it with another RISC OS machine isn't going to happen. And
it serves its purpose (FTP, stronged) so I don't want to replace it
with another OS especially since netsurf (on not too hideous sites)
and parmesan both work happily on it.
> Adding support for WML, WMLScript, and the other
> formats and protocols in the WAP suite would be a significant effort.
> Effort that could be put to better use almost anywhere else in NetSurf.
That's basically the answer I was trying to find out. If support were
just a matter of telling NS to accept a new content type and use a
couple of new tags then it would have been a sensible feature request.
Since it seems that loads of work would be needed then it wouldn't be.
--
Jess
http://jess.itworkshop-nexus.net
