From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:464fcf1e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> What do you think of cellphones as an application development platform
> target?
>
> Anyone know much about this?

Not very much, but I worked in a company once that did some mobile development work.


> I'm curious to know:
>
> 1) Do most cellphones have HTML renderers built in?

Yes.


> 2) Do you ever surf the web with your cellphone?

No. Nobody does, it's just too painful. But that's not because of the
phones, it's because 99,999% of website designers are complete wankers who
insist on fixed size, so the page never scales on a mobile phone display
properly.


> 3) Do most cellphones run Javascript?

Yes.


> 4) What percentage of cellphones run downloadable Java?

I'd guess "most". This is the fairly-high-end models, though - I
don't know about the cheapest thingamajickies.


> 5) Do any cellphones support the setting of cookies?

All that have a browser, support cookies as well. At least all that I've
ever checked did.


> 6) Does text messaging get supported with something called SMS?

SMS (Short Message Service) = text messaging.


Antti Kurenniemi

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