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From: <the_logos@www.achaea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:05:05 +0000 (GMT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Kwon Ekstrom wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Littlejohn" <darius@bofh.net.au>
>> What about blind players? What about people on palm pilots, or WAP
>> phones? No point in making a "new mud standard" unless you address
>> usability issues such as this - otherwise, you're building yet
>> another customised client for your mud, not a standard way for all
>> muds and clients to chat.
> I'm not aware of any current muds that support WAP, although there
> probably is some form of a telnet program for palm pilots. There
> are audio dictation utilities available for blind people... but I
> agree, any new standard you try to implement must be able to address
> usability. The best way to do this imho is to give plenty of room
> for extension. The xml protocol that I'm evisioning definitely
> allows for that.
I've logged into Achaea before via telnet from a palm pilot, and I
know I'm not the only one. Doesn't work very well of course, but it's
cool, and it's clearly the future.
--matt
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