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Re: Display types
- Subject: Re: Display types
- From: Michael McSharry
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:44:00 +0000
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">It is
totally reasonable to provide xml/html tags in the data messages if the
source desires specific formatting and the target would act like a broswer
and ignore tags it did not know how to deal with. It is
possible to provide a query response in which a provider will
provide a single response from an enumerated set of "display
class" possibilities. I think trying to itemize all the
possible display propertries is too subject to continual expansion
of the schema. The specifics of the formatting ultimately needs
to reside of the target while the source can provided
preferences. The target should not be disclosing all its display
properties since that then imposes a need for other xap applications to be
cognizant of the specific properties of each
possible display device. The issued that exists with
approaches such as using meta tags is that
very dumb display devivces would still need to be able to
interpret message content as tags vs
data.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title="lists@xxxxxxx"
href="mailto:lists@xxxxxxx";>Stuart
Booth</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A
title="xAP_developer@xxxxxxx" href="mailto:xAP_developer@xxxxxxx";>xAP_developer@xxxxxxx</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:25
AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [xAP_developer] Display
types</DIV>
<DIV></DIV><TT>I was wondering this morning, given
various display types can havedifferent capabilities, would it be of any
use if the display device,along with stating "Hey, I can display
things!", provided itscapabilities?For
instance:Display.Features{Height=(number of lines of
display) --- may be some special value to
signify unlimited potentialWidth=(maximum number of [fixed width?]
characters per line)Colour=(1 0) --- or
true/false etcCoords=(1 0) --- (whether or
not it can cope with coordinate based output)}Other items might include its
ability to Queue, Prioritise, etc.This of course presumes that another
application elsewhere on the xAPnetwork knows how it wants its data to be
displayed, as opposed to thedisplay device doing it all.S-- Stuart Booth
<stuart@xxxxxxx>xAPFramework.net - a xAP software development
framework for .net<A href="http://www.xapautomation.org/";>http://www.xapautomation.org/</A>
<A href="http://www.xapframework.net/";>http://www.xapframework.net/</A></TT>
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