Interesting things going on at Volantis. They are beta testing a very simple system to convert any web site to a format suitable for viewing on high end Smartphones (html based) as well as low end WAP phones (wml).

I tried it myself and it seemed very easy to use. However, I got a 404 error when I tried to access the generated site. Then again, it’s in beta.

I didn’t see a facility to schedule re-generation of the mobile site - essential if the mobile version is to keep up-to-date with the full version. It’s interesting that Volantis have chosen for one-off static generation rather than dynamic on-the-fly generation like skweezer. I suppose on-the-fly generation just isn’t scalable for huge numbers of users… unless you are Google of course.

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