Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication, for example Internet access from a mobile phone. WAP was designed to provide services equivalent to a Web browser with some mobile-specific additions, being specifically designed to address the limitations of very small portable devices. However, during its first years of existence WAP suffered from considerable negative media attention and has been criticised heavily for it

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Jun 06, 2000 Chris Tull, Contributing Writer Download a PDF version of this tutorial Let's face it - WML isn't the best development language when trying to dictate the look of your applications. However, this may be a blessing in disguise. Remember, your applications are going to be displayed from tiny phone screens, differing in size and style...   Read Article.

By Vikram Vaswani and Harish Kamath October 05, 2000 Yet Another Acronym For Web developers, the sudden focus on the new wireless medium is manna from heaven. Not only do they get to rework existing Web sites for the new platform, but they also get to add a brand-new language to their already overcrowded resumes, and throw around yet another acronym...   Read Article.

Mar 05, 2002 Jay Staton, Staff Writer Since the rise, fall and rebirth of the new wireless World Wide Web, a finite number of constants have emerged and permanently integrated themselves into the lifeline of the Internet. Such constants, for better or for worse, include porn, spam and advertising of all shapes and sizes. We will focus on the latter...   Read Article.

Apr 25, 2000 Victor Brilon, Technology Strategist Want More? Read Part II of this Tutorial Download Part II (PDF) Download a PDF version of this tutorial This tutorial is for developers who: Know how to build WML cards and decks and understand how they work. If you are not familiar with how to do this, please read our 3 part tutorial on WML development:...   Read Article.

Jul 13, 2000 Chris Tull, Contributing Writer Want More? Read Part II of this Tutorial Download Part II (PDF) Download a PDF version of this tutorial In this, the first of a two-part tutorial, we will look some different options available in regards to navigation between cards and decks. In Part One, we will discuss more of the widely used navigation...   Read Article.

May 03, 2000 Jonathan Meadows, Contributing Writer For this tutorial, we're going to guide you through building a servlet that will output WML content. I m going to use my local kebab shop as the example -- I recently promised to build them a web site and (in the hope of getting free kebabs for life) I thought I d WAP enable them at the same time....   Read Article.

Aug 09, 2001 Jay Staton, Staff Writer, AnywhereYouGo.com The first part of this series introduced you to using functions and variables within WMLScript, as well as basic syntax. In this lesson we'll explain how functions are used within WMLScript and examine the built-in libraries included in WAP-enabled devices. Functions Functions are small, reusable...   Read Article.

Jul 27, 2000 Richard Weeks, Technical Manager of Wireless Solutions at Grey Interactive UK, is a member of the AnywhereYouGo.com community. Everywhere you go it seems you can't turn a corner too suddenly for fear of being knocked over by someone raving about WAP being the best thing since mankind worked out how to program video recorders. Well,...   Read Article.

Jun 02, 2000 John Davies, Contributing Writer -- UK Location Services (LCS) deliver information about the geographical location of mobile telecommunications devices such as mobile telephones, mobile interactive browsers (for example, using WAP or i-Mode) and devices attached to other movable items such as people, packages and vehicles. Location Based...   Read Article.

Jun 22, 2000 Chris Tull, Contributing Writer Want More? Read Part I of this Tutorial Download Part I (PDF) Download a PDF version of this tutorial In Part One of this tutorial we looked at the basics of adding user-input functionality to WAP applications. In this second part, we'll further explore user-input possibilities within the WML language. First,...   Read Article.

Mar 27, 2002 Ryan Welton, Daily Editor Seems like as soon as a technology find its place in orbit, some asteroid has to come knock it back into the stratosphere. It's become so predictable to hear about the demise of technologies like WAP or Bluetooth that one turns a cynical eye on anything unilaterally accepted. As someone who has taken a liking...   Read Article.

Jun 13, 2000 Chris Tull, Contributing Writer Want More? Read Part II of this Tutorial Download Part II (PDF) Download a PDF version of this tutorial Want to give users the ability to input information into your WAP applications? Want to avoid having to delve into something heavier than WML to create this functionality? You're in luck. WML possesses...   Read Article.

Apr 26, 2000 James Pearce, Technology Strategist Want More? Read Part I of this Tutorial Download Part I (PDF) Download a PDF version of this tutorial If you can build a WAP application with one server technology, it's pretty likely you can do it in any number of other ways too. Of course, we here at AnywhereYouGo.com are always doing our best to...   Read Article.

Aug 02, 2000 David Anderson is a member of the AnywhereYouGo.com community. Download a PDF version of this tutorial Build a single web site for both Web and WAP users You already have a web site, and now you want a WAP site. Ideally, you want everyone - both web and WAP users - to access content using a single URL. How should you go about integrating...   Read Article.

May 24, 2002 Chris Tull, Contributing Writer The following is an excerpt from the book WAP 2.0 Development by Chris Tull, available from Que Publishing. Timers are everywhere in the wireless world. Splash pages that display logos or titles often use timers. Flashing advertisement blurbs that change without any user involvement are another popular use....   Read Article.

Feb 01, 2002 Jay Staton, Staff Writer Some time last year the WAP Forum introduced WAP 2.0 on all of us unsuspecting developers, so now it is our job to relearn everything we have spent the last few years of our lives trying to understand. So with this lesson I'd like to take the time to catch some of you up on the features of WML 2.0, let you...   Read Article.

Eric Griffin This article assumes you re familiar with WAP, WML. and .NET Level of Difficulty 1 2 3 SUMMARY Cell phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices that connect with the Internet enjoy growing popularity, making wireless applications more important and especially useful to companies with remote employees. This article presents an overview of the...   Read Article.

Oct 31, 2000 Fritz Jouml;rn If WAP wants to grow, it had better learn to i-Mode. Our experiment all started with the search for an i-Mode sample. Everybody writes about i-Mode, but nobody has really seen it. And we Germans like to see before we believe. Having accrued ample experience with a private WAP site (WAP.Joern.com), we first hunted for an...   Read Article.

Jun 05, 2000 Christina Biggs, a Software Engineer at Scarab Software, is a member of the AnywhereYouGo.com community. So you've heard of HDML and you've heard of WML, but you don't know the differences, and you don't know which to use. Perhaps you're already using one and thinking of switching to the other. Perhaps you've...   Read Article.