XML in the toaster (was Why I Hate Palmtops)

[Vane Lashua]

Thank god for American football and commercials. Yesterday a TV ad showed
cell phone users in Finland using cell phones as terminals/"credit cards"
for ATMs, dispensing machines, ticketing, etc. On the radio news this
morning, a toy store is reported to be giving in-store scanners to kids who
would scan barcodes of desired items then download the list to the register,
where it would be emailed? printed? for delivery to the parent. The phone
could as easily do this work. Whether the phone is a thick or thin client,
you don't "need" XML for this kind of application, but "specific" turns
generic when you let it. There's a jini(tm) in your future, and it already
speaks XML.
Vane   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn at ebt.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 5:41 PM
> To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: RE: Why I Hate Palmtops (was: Re: SGML, XML and SML)
> 
> 
> > Take a phone for example.  Your front office could send you
> > some notes in XML format so that if it contains a phone number,
> > the phone can display a small phone icon at the corner of the
> > message and make the call for you when you press a button.  Your
> > business card can be stored on your phone so that you can give
> > it to another person by simply pointing it at his phone.  Another
> > use might be to receive address information so that you can find it
> > using cellular tri-angulation or satellite technology.
> 
> This is such a specific application that I fail to see the necessity
> of XML... unless of course we imagine *all* phones
> being able to deal with such messages.
> 
> 
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