Why Two Languages?
First of all you must ask yourself, "Why bother writing WML at all? Can't I just use HTML and a translator?" The answer is yes you can, but if you want to build a real-world, compelling application, any translator is not going to get you far enough.
Consider, for example, http://Amazon.com. Figure 13.1 shows what its Web site looks like in Internet Explorer.
Figure 13.1. http://Amazon.com as viewed through Internet Explorer. There's lots of useful information here that a user can get to quickly and simply.
Figure 13.2 shows what the http://Amazon.com site looks like when it comes through an HTML/WML Translator. Figure 13.3
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