Apr 01 2002 Jay Staton At some point in all of our developmental careers we will be asked to create a site for multiple platforms. When this happens you will need to know how to write a script to detect the users browser type and direct them to the appropriate document. In this tutorial I will show how to create a simple redirection script using...

Feb 27 2002 Jay Staton Staff Writer Last year more than 20 million Java 2 Micro Edition J2ME -enabled devices were sold in Japan. With the addition of Motorola and Nextel s agreement to provide J2ME phones in North America it is becoming increasingly clearer to wireless developers that now is the time to hop on the Java train and start creating...

Mar 11 2002 Jay Staton In the last part of our tutorial we discussed the fundamentals of J2ME and began creating the GoodbyeWAP project. Today we will begin by creating the MIDlet to complete our project. Create the GoodbyeWAPMIDlet In case any of you are confused a MIDlet is simply a fancy name for an application that complies with the J2ME MIDP...

Jan 29 2001 James Hayward Contributing Writer The concepts of open-source have been around for over twenty years now. The Internet as we know it today was built on open-source culture and the Internet itself has then helped probably more than any other innovation the adoption of open-sourced software OSS . With thousands of developers and testers...

May 10 2000 Lars Lemming Contributing Writer -- United Kingdom Note from the Editor The following is an excerpt from a conversation regarding MobileThink s recent usability test. It is published with the permission of the author. One of the factors that we noticed in our usability test was of course speed -- but not as the most important factor...

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 heard that they are the same...

Oct 31 2000 Fritz Jö 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...

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...

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 know...

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....

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...

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 keep...

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...

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 to...

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...