Wednesday, June 23, 2010

What is WAP?

What is WAP?
WAP is a standard to show internet contents on wireless clients, like mobile phones.
WAP is for handheld devices such as mobile phones
WAP is a protocol designed for micro browsers
WAP enables the creating of web applications for mobile devices.
WAP uses the mark-up language WML (not HTML)
WML is defined as an XML 1.0 application


WAP Micro Browsers

To fit into a small wireless terminal, WAP uses a Micro Browser.

A Micro Browser is a small piece of software that makes minimal demands on hardware, memory and CPU. It can display information written in a restricted mark-up language called WML.

What is WML?

WML stands for Wireless Markup Language. It is a mark-up language inherited from HTML, but WML is based on XML, so it is much stricter than HTML.

WML is used to create pages that can be displayed in a WAP browser. Pages in WML are called DECKS. Decks are constructed as a set of CARDS.

Example WML document:

"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">



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In a WAP browser screen only one card is displayed at a time.

WMLScript can apply for client side scripting like JavaScript for HTML and for styling WCSS is used.

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