wap

O'Reilly-Rober-Jones

XHTML

MP (Mobile Profile).

Wireless Markup Language (WML) as a first crack at the problem.

WML content is served by a regular HTTP server like Apache, but its delivery mechanism involves a gateway device that sits between the phone and the server. This mechanism is referred to as the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and specifically, as WAP 1.0.

First of all, both WML and XHTML MP are XML-based languages

In Part 1, I will describe the basic features of the two main markup languages,

WML and XHTML MP, and will show how you serve them from a web server. In Part 2, I will show how you can identify the phone that has requested a page and deliver content that is tailored for that device.

Users in the UK alone downloaded 8 billion pages to their phones in 2003. A huge audience; but bear in mind that most of them are viewing sports scores or downloading custom ring tones, and not a lot else. The opportunity for developers like us to serve up imaginative and useful content to their phones is tremendous.