Comments on: Sprint Openwaves hello to better mobile browsing http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/03/sprint_openwaves_hello_to_better_mobile_browsing_.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:35:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James Whatley http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/03/sprint_openwaves_hello_to_better_mobile_browsing_.html/comment-page-1#comment-220457 James Whatley Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:50:14 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/03/sprint_openwaves_hello_to_better_mobile_browsing_.html#comment-220457 Novarra & Vodafone all over again.. Content creators have a hard time designing bespoke content and content consumers will get put off using it. Idiots. Novarra & Vodafone all over again..

Content creators have a hard time designing bespoke content and content consumers will get put off using it.

Idiots.

]]> By: HeavyLight http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/03/sprint_openwaves_hello_to_better_mobile_browsing_.html/comment-page-1#comment-220447 HeavyLight Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:40:19 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/03/sprint_openwaves_hello_to_better_mobile_browsing_.html#comment-220447 Raddedas at techtype <a href="http://techype.blogspot.com/2008/03/wait-are-they-talking-about-same-thing.html" rel="nofollow">isn't impressed</a> by Openweb: "I was a couple of sentences in before I realised this was the same transcoder that was thoroughly mangling every page it saw, from the tightest hand coded valid mobile XHTML-MP through to standard web pages, reducing them to a nasty common denominator of black and white ugliness, with markup errors added in for free. [...] "Did customers ask for this? Did they get a choice whether to have it? Does this really make their lives easier? Bollocks it does. This shows exactly how open the new open intiatives from the US operators are - opening the door just enough to kick everyone but themselves and their paying content providers out into the cold." <em>HeavyLight's last blog post..<a href='http://normob.blogspot.com/2008/03/whatleydude-n95-saga-vf-comes-out.html' rel="nofollow">Whatleydude's N95 saga: VF comes out shining!</a></em> Raddedas at techtype isn’t impressed by Openweb:
“I was a couple of sentences in before I realised this was the same transcoder that was thoroughly mangling every page it saw, from the tightest hand coded valid mobile XHTML-MP through to standard web pages, reducing them to a nasty common denominator of black and white ugliness, with markup errors added in for free.
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“Did customers ask for this? Did they get a choice whether to have it? Does this really make their lives easier? Bollocks it does. This shows exactly how open the new open intiatives from the US operators are – opening the door just enough to kick everyone but themselves and their paying content providers out into the cold.”

HeavyLight’s last blog post..Whatleydude’s N95 saga: VF comes out shining!

]]> By: Dennis http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/03/sprint_openwaves_hello_to_better_mobile_browsing_.html/comment-page-1#comment-220437 Dennis Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:31:00 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/03/sprint_openwaves_hello_to_better_mobile_browsing_.html#comment-220437 I've been using OpenWeb for a week now and can report that it's just a transcoder like Skweezer or Mowser and not a particularly good one at that. It strips formatting, breaks images and fails completely on many pages. Users are stuck with it as there is no way to opt out of its use or even turn it off on a page by page basis. The worst part of OpenWeb is that it does not distinguish between full web sites and made for mobile ones destroying the appearance and usability of well made mobile sites. OpenWeb also threatens the business model of off-portal sites selling content like ringtones, games, applications and themes because it replaces the browser's User Agent header with the User Agent of a generic desktop browser so it's impossible to identify the user's handset to deliver the proper content. More on my Blog: http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=514 <em>Dennis's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WapReview/~3/254060417/' rel="nofollow">Sprint OpenWeb Update</a></em> I’ve been using OpenWeb for a week now and can report that it’s just a transcoder like Skweezer or Mowser and not a particularly good one at that. It strips formatting, breaks images and fails completely on many pages. Users are stuck with it as there is no way to opt out of its use or even turn it off on a page by page basis.

The worst part of OpenWeb is that it does not distinguish between full web sites and made for mobile ones destroying the appearance and usability of well made mobile sites.

OpenWeb also threatens the business model of off-portal sites selling content like ringtones, games, applications and themes because it replaces the browser’s User Agent header with the User Agent of a generic desktop browser so it’s impossible to identify the user’s handset to deliver the proper content.

More on my Blog: http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=514

Dennis’s last blog post..Sprint OpenWeb Update

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