Compact HTML revisited: interoperability design for the digital appliance era

Author

Yamakami, Toshihiko

Author_Institution

Res. & Dev. Div., ACCESS, Tokyo, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

350

Abstract

Compact HTML is a subset of HTML 3.2 for the use of micro browsers in mobile handsets. It was submitted to W3C as a W3C Note in 1998 before the mobile Internet services in Japan were launched. In the emergence of the digital appliance-based Internet, the importance of the minimum markup language is revived. The mobile Internet is shifting toward rich mobile multimedia, however, another emerging market like PHS needs resource-constraint aware standardization even today. The author outlines the browser evolution path. Then the author presents the two perspectives: street HTML and forward-looking interoperability. The author presents the design of Compact HTML 1.1 to respect the three requirements: telephony-aware features, restriction-aware features and Internet convergence features.

Keywords

Internet telephony; hypermedia markup languages; mobile handsets; multimedia communication; online front-ends; open systems; personal communication networks; Compact HTML 1.1; HTML 3.2; Internet convergence features; Japan; PHS; W3C Note; browser evolution path; digital appliance; forward-looking interoperability; interoperability design; micro browsers; minimum markup language; mobile Internet services; mobile handsets; resource-constraint aware standardization; restriction-aware features; rich mobile multimedia; street HTML; telephony-aware features; Convergence; Costs; HTML; Home appliances; Internet; Markup languages; Mobile handsets; Protocols; Standardization; Telephone sets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Information Technology, 2004. ISCIT 2004. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8593-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIT.2004.1412867

Filename

1412867