Google HTML -> WAP converter

[Craig Cockburn]

http://www.google.com/gwt/n

Seems to be down at the moment, was up a few hours ago.

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[William Tasso]

Re: Google HTML -> WAP converter

Fleeing from the madness of the Silicon Glen - Scotland's Internet jungle
Craig Cockburn <craig@silicong len.com> stumbled into
news:alt.https://www.webmaster,comp.infosyste...authoring.html
and said:
[color=blue]
> http://www.google.com/gwt/n
>
> Seems to be down at the moment, was up a few hours ago.[/color]

Works ok from here - assuming that what I'm seeing is the thing actually
working. I can't see the point of it.

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[Luigi Donatello Asero]

Re: Google HTML -&gt; WAP converter


"William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tb data.com> skrev i meddelandet news:op.s3ebgmw am9g4qz-wnt@tbdata.com. ..[color=blue]
> Fleeing from the madness of the Silicon Glen - Scotland's Internet jungle
> Craig Cockburn <craig@silicong len.com> stumbled into
> news:alt.https://www.webmaster,comp.infosyste...authoring.html
> and said:
> [color=green]
> > http://www.google.com/gwt/n
> >
> > Seems to be down at the moment, was up a few hours ago.[/color]
>
> Works ok from here - assuming that what I'm seeing is the thing actually
> working. I can't see the point of it.[/color]

But it does not seem to work with https...


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[Nick Kew]

Re: Google HTML -&gt; WAP converter

Craig Cockburn wrote:[color=blue]
> http://www.google.com/gwt/n
>
> Seems to be down at the moment, was up a few hours ago.
>[/color]
Um, that bare form is crying out for an explanation of
what it does. Do you have a URL for that?

FWIW, it looks a little like some of what I was hacking
about 4 years ago, before it became a real live application.

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[Toby Inkster]

Re: Google HTML -&gt; WAP converter

William Tasso wrote:
[color=blue]
> Works ok from here - assuming that what I'm seeing is the thing actually
> working. I can't see the point of it.[/color]

It transforms any web page into an (invalid[1]) XHTML 1.0 Mobile page,
resizing images as it goes along, to allow them to fit onto a "typical"
mobile phone screen.

There's not an awful lot of point, as most mobile phone companies tend to
provide a gateway/proxy that does this for you already.

____
1. Even if the input is valid.

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[William Tasso]

Re: Google HTML -&gt; WAP converter

Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
Toby Inkster <usenet200601@t obyinkster.co.u k> stumbled into
news:alt.https://www.webmaster,comp.infosyste...authoring.html
and said:
[color=blue]
> William Tasso wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Works ok from here - assuming that what I'm seeing is the thing actually
>> working. I can't see the point of it.[/color]
>
> It transforms any web page into an (invalid[1]) XHTML 1.0 Mobile page,
> resizing images as it goes along, to allow them to fit onto a "typical"
> mobile phone screen.[/color]

Aha - I'll be sure to check back when I work out what 'typical' means.
[color=blue]
> There's not an awful lot of point, as most mobile phone companies tend to
> provide a gateway/proxy that does this for you already.[/color]

Yes, I see (and agree - largely pointless)
[color=blue]
> ____
> 1. Even if the input is valid.[/color]

On the page I looked at - the effect appears to be simply to ignore CSS
and munge the markup. Oh well.

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[Toby Inkster]

Re: Google HTML -&gt; WAP converter

William Tasso wrote:
[color=blue]
> On the page I looked at - the effect appears to be simply to ignore CSS
> and munge the markup. Oh well.[/color]

It also conveniently strips out alt attributes. :-)

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