Subj : Re: I'm still waiting for somebody to offer constructive criticism
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Pascal Bourguignon
Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 02:33 pm

rem642b@Yahoo.Com (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) writes:
>> I used to think that Free Software emulators for WAP were available.
>
> I don't have any net access such that it'd be possible to correctly
> emulate a small cellphone screen. Piping small-screen Web pages through
> a VT100 (fixed-pitch single-font test) would not give a proper idea
> what a WebPage would look like rendered properly on a cellphone screen,
> and IMO would not be worth even trying.

Once again, this doesn't bode well for your employability, if you
don't understand what was suggested here.

The suggested setup is to put your web pages on your computer, to run
a web server on your computer and to run a web browser on the emulator
running on your computer, so you can spend all the time you need to
test the communication chain without having to pay for actual
communications.  Once you're satisfied with your modified web pages,
you connect to your Internet web server and transfer your new web page
to it.


>> And the reason you didn't whip out your computer science credentials
>> and _write_ a WAP emulator are..?
>
> Because I don't have access to any system on which it would be possible
> to render Web output in any way similar to how it'd appear on a cellphone.

You're being silly!  To write your own WAP emulator you only need
programmig knowledge (what you claim to have with your computer
science credentials), and information about the WAP protocols. You
don't need access to an existing WAP system.

Alternatively, http://www.google.com/search?q=wap+emulator returns 436,000 hits,
and http://www.google.com/search?q=free+wap+emulator returns 278,000 hits.


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Your foot just squashed one.

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