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On the XML-Dev mailing list, Arved Sandstrom responds to a post by Tim Bray derriding WAP as a multi-billion dollar failure. Sandstrom says that WAP is a pain and limited because of the devices it’s fed to, and that may be a good thing.

Actually, come to think of it, of course they crippled the spec, and for good reasons. Give people a richer markup and they abuse it – the norm in the industry for pushing content to browsers on PDAs is to do screen scrapes; these look atrocious. Give people something more than WML for the phone and they’d abuse the hell out of that, too.

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