Re: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:22:28 -0600
 "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Joe, just say that XML over broad band isn't that bad.
>  You can't dispute
> that.  You can move the discussion to say that
> transferring XML with floppy
> disks takes longer, but that is not what I was saying was
> a good use of XML.

Sorry to butt in, but I actually agree with Joe on most of
these points (We had this talk at our poker night,
remember!  LOL!)

Because we have the bandwidtch doesn't mean we can or
should bload the data we transmit.  The problem is that for
every double in bandwidth we quadruple the amount of data
because we think "it's faster, so we can".  And we end up
back in the same place, begging for more bandwidth.  An
extra 350 bytes for 10,000 transactions adds up quick.  It
similar to programming.. processors get faster, so we bloat
our software, then we need faster processers, and the cycle
continues.

I belive it was on the Screen Savers where Powell from the
FCC was being interviewed by Leo, and he said that
tommorow's technologies won't be on how to increase
bandwidth, but will be focused more on compression and
extending the use of the existing bandwidth.  (The US as a
hole is pretty far behind in the bandwith game anyhow).

You know my feelings on XML, Aaron, so I won't go into them
here.  But they're right on track with everything Joe has
said, for the most part.

> 
> Unless I am mistaken (just because I have only read about
> them and not used
> them) there are separate standards for sending stuff to
> cell phones, PDA's,
> RF's, etc. . . WML comes to mind.  

WML came about and replaced the main markup which was WDML
from OpenWave.  The problem with WDML was it was
proprietary to the OpenWave clients, so WML then appeared
as a standard and forced OpenWave to this new standard (a
good thing).  Still a little bloated, but it does work and
is more of an open standard like HTML.