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Monday, April 03, 2006
AOL offers its own mobile web solution
Some time ago there were discussions about whether Google had the right to remove ads etc when converting web pages for small phone displays, but also AOL has taken that route by chopping off all "unneeded" information before generating WAP/WML from the HTML, shrinks the images and handles simple Javascript menus on the server side. Taken together this should mean you can use your existing phone for browsing any (or most any) web site.
Quote: AOL's servers detect the size and color depth of individual phones' screens and alter images to fit. And while the system will try to automatically reformat many pages, the most popular Web sites will get hand-tagged by human AOL editors, he said.
The last point doesn't seem very realistic as the most popular web sites are also the most updated (on a second-by-second basis).
Quote: But Opera Mini is a Java application you must download to your phone, where AOL's service works through the phone's existing WAP browser.
The question is if it's a but or an advantage. E.g. I haven't seen WAP browsers that can show such small text as Opera Mini.
AOL Shrinks Web for Cell Phones - Yahoo! News
Quote: AOL's servers detect the size and color depth of individual phones' screens and alter images to fit. And while the system will try to automatically reformat many pages, the most popular Web sites will get hand-tagged by human AOL editors, he said.
The last point doesn't seem very realistic as the most popular web sites are also the most updated (on a second-by-second basis).
Quote: But Opera Mini is a Java application you must download to your phone, where AOL's service works through the phone's existing WAP browser.
The question is if it's a but or an advantage. E.g. I haven't seen WAP browsers that can show such small text as Opera Mini.
AOL Shrinks Web for Cell Phones - Yahoo! News
