Message-Id: <200304120605.h3C65pD31482@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Path: not-for-mail From: news@garydjones.mailshell.com Subject: Re: For The Record: HTML Email on the Internet; RFC 2557 X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030410160138.024b4998@pop3.cris.com> Organization: To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Gate: Hamster/1.3.23.185 NewsToMail-Gate Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:29:54 +0200 "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" wrote: > Consider WAP over an e.g. GPRS link; It uses a COMPRESSED form of HTML (WAP > is a HTML variation as I see it), can you imagine that! ;-) ITYWF that WAP is a (compressed?) form of http, WML is the HTML equivalent, IIRC, though it isn't as simple as that. > The reason is obvious; GPRS'es _low bandwidth_. This bandwidth is by far > HIGHER than previous implementations have had[1], but they still stick to > the compressed format. Why would the wanna do that, you think? > [1] GSM 9600 bps, GPRS ~384kpbs, ("3G" WCDMA, TDMA2k... up to 738kbps IIRC) You forgot Edge. And what bandwidth you get depends on exactly where and how it is measured (*cough* marketing gimic *cough*). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/