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]

Fleeing from the madness of the Silicon Glen - Scotland's Internet jungle
Craig Cockburn <cr***@siliconglen.com> stumbled into
news:alt.http://www.webmaster,comp.infosystem...authoring.html
and said:

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

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

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]

"William Tasso" <Sp*********@tbdata.com> skrev i meddelandet news:op*******************@tbdata.com...

Fleeing from the madness of the Silicon Glen - Scotland's Internet jungle
Craig Cockburn <cr***@siliconglen.com> stumbled into
news:alt.http://www.webmaster,comp.infosystem...authoring.html
and said:

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

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

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

But it does not seem to work with https...
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[Nick Kew]

Craig Cockburn wrote:

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

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

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]

William Tasso wrote:

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

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.

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1. Even if the input is valid.

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[William Tasso]

Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
Toby Inkster <us**********@tobyinkster.co.uk> stumbled into
news:alt.http://www.webmaster,comp.infosystem...authoring.html
and said:

William Tasso wrote:

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

Aha - I'll be sure to check back when I work out what 'typical' means.
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.
Yes, I see (and agree - largely pointless)
____
1. Even if the input is valid.

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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Save the drama
for your Mama.

[Toby Inkster]

William Tasso wrote:

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

It also conveniently strips out alt attributes. :-)

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