Re: UKNM: help! online services

[Jay]

 > Ooh - there's an acronym I don't understand (excuse me if I should)...  What's

WML?


Wireless Markup Language, a strict tag-based language that lets you display

content on devices with limited screen real-estate.


Rather than "pages", WAP applications (wot are written in WML) are delivered as

"cards" in a "deck". WML has an associated scripting language, WMLscript. Both

WML and WMLscript can be delivered as plain text (like HTML over HTTP) or can be

compiled into a more compact bytecode.


It's worth noting that WML nor WAP are a way of "getting the web on your phone".

This can be done with a HTML->WML gateway but is not the best (or even a

desirable) solution.  A much better idea would be to create WAP specific views

of your content. If your content lives in a database (especially if it's an

object database or is already stored as XML) then producing WAP apps is a cinch.


See:


www.wapforum.org

www.eurowireless.co.uk

www.w3.org/Mobile/


Cheers,


Jay.


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