However, care must be taken to ensure that users will have effective and usable experiences. A requirement for this is that developers will be able to produce such applications easily. Conventional wisdom, that content can be separated from presentation easily, is misleading and doesn't provide the developer with an easy way to produce the quality of applications required. This workshop should ensure that developers will be able to create appropriate multi-modal applications with ease. Our WAP service was publicly launched in December 1999, although we had been trialing WAP and pre-WAP for many months before this.
Today there is much excitement surrounding phone-based web browsers and speech recognition.
In the rush to convergence of different technologies, alongside the convergence of markets, there is a danger that important issues for the user may be overlooked. It is important for people to find such a convergence usable and effective. It is the diversity of the web developer community that has made the web into the rich experience that it is. This document is divided into the three areas of designs, devices, and developers. This may be because the concepts of content and presentation overlap, or it may be because there is no way to have content without presentation.