WAP Development with WML and WMLScript

Summary

This chapter has taken a quick look at what it means to deliver the same content to an HTML browser as well as a WAP browser. The key message is that while HTML can be delivered to a phone through a translator, taking the time to write a WML interface into an application is well worth the effort in terms of both usability and functionality. Although WML and HTML are on the road to convergence with the forthcoming XHTML specification from the W3C, it will still be some time before the specifications become reality. In preparing yourself for that time, and even in preparing yourself to build a scalable Web application, content and data should be abstracted from the presentation of that content. The simplest and most effective way to do ...