--===============0594424461== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-67-725479282 --Apple-Mail-67-725479282 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed It's nice to live in your own little land in the Bay Area and have megabits of direct internet connection but billions of people are in a place where bandwidth is at a premium and in many cases access is only via a WAP gateway. I had the pleasure of spending a lot of time in that environment last year. We went through the discussion of including mobile standards earlier: http://marc.info/?l=webkit- dev&m=124217066116839&w=2 This isn't a science[1] project. It's an engineering[2] project. There are 493,124,000 subscribers[3] to China Mobile alone, the vast majority of which have only WAP access. I don't think we need more statistics to validate the importance. Don't look for it to help Chrome. It won't. It's not the solution to that problem. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering 3: http://www.chinamobileltd.com/ On 6-Aug-09, at 9:45 PM, Eric Seidel wrote: > Why do we have patches for WAP support? > > WAP is big in asian markets, yes? > Can someone provide some data as to how big? Is the market for WAP > growing? It seems that the various posted -wap- patches have > limited utility for the rest of WebKit. It seems to me (although I > am the first to admit ignorance here!) that WAP is a dying > technology and I don't see why we would want to add the complexity > to WebKit. > > I worry the proposed WAP support patches violate some of our non- > goals. > http://webkit.org/projects/goals.html > WebKit is an engineering project not a science project. > WebKit is not the solution to every problem. -- George Staikos Torch Mobile Inc. http://www.torchmobile.com/ --Apple-Mail-67-725479282 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Why do we = have patches for WAP support?WAP is big in asian markets, = yes?Can someone provide some data as to how big? =A0Is the = market for WAP growing? =A0It seems that the various posted -wap- = patches have limited utility for the rest of WebKit. =A0It seems to me = (although I am the first to admit ignorance here!) that WAP is a dying = technology and I don't see why we would want to add the complexity to = WebKit.I worry the proposed WAP support = patches violate some of our non-goals.WebKit is an engineering project not a science = project. WebKit is not the solution to every = problem.