Ha! I was at Orange. I suspect all the carriers had similar setups. Yeah I don’t miss working with that lol
I worked in the same period for a finnish startup (iobox.fi) that ended up being acquired by telefonica.
Our mobile and web portal was made of j2ee services producing XML which were then transformed by XSLT into HTML or WAP
At the time it blew me away that they expected web designers to work in an esoteric language like that
But it was also nicely separated
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I worked in the same period for a finnish startup (iobox.fi) that ended up being acquired by telefonica.
Our mobile and web portal was made of j2ee services producing XML which were then transformed by XSLT into HTML or WAP
At the time it blew me away that they expected web designers to work in an esoteric language like that
But it was also nicely separated