[mythtv] [PATCH] mythweb: Adds wml theme

[Joe Buckshin]

Kevin is exactly right. 

>From what I can tell the xvml theme is used in conjunction with the
mythphone module.

I wouldn't say that this is a replacement for the wap theme.  The wap
theme is (iirc) a modification of the compact theme, which is HTML.  I
think the wap theme is still useful for people with smart phone
devices and newer phones that have browsers that are capable of
rendering html or xhtml (such as the openwave 6.x browser) but have
limited viewing area.  I think that calling it a 'wap' theme was a bit
of a misnomer and should probably be renamed for clarity.  Also, maybe
some rework is in order, such as making it XHTML compliant so that it
is compatible with new browsers.

The WML theme is meant to support the most common mobile browsers and
fit within the rather small message size limits (~2k in most cases)

Joe






On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:40:54 -0500, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Chris Petersen wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >> This patch adds a wml theme to mythweb.  This enables mythweb to be
> >> used with most phone browsers that are not html capable (ie, openwave
> >> 4.x browsers).
> >
> >
> > How is this different from the vxml theme?  (I don't know anything
> > about phone browsers)
> >
> > Also, does this override the long-ignored WAP theme (which I
> > understand wasn't exactly WAP at all)?  Should I remove it?
> 
> Having worked with this type of stuff before:
> 
> vxml is VoiceXML for a voice response system (like "Press 1 to delete
> your recording") that would be used in conjunction with a vxml server
> and dialed like a regular phone number.
> 
> wml is to wap as html is to http.  WAP is the protocol, WML is the
> markup.  So indeed it would appear that this replaces the WAP theme that
> currently exists.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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