I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place - I can't find anything in the forum related to websites enabled for or specifically for WAP. Is anyone here experienced in this? As Google and Yahoo are getting heavily involved in this now I think we need to get more serious about it. I rejected the idea as dumb 5 years ago but it seems that people are now surfing the web on their PDA's and mobile devices. Would welcome any discussion on this. THANKS
I've done it. Producing a website to run on one specific WAP device is easy; especially if you have that device in front of you. Getting it to "fit" correctly on all different manners of phones, PDAs, and CE devices is a different story. If you think browser standards are bad on home PCs, it is much worse with portables.
Since WAP 2.0 you actually can use same front-end for mobile devices, so there is no significant overhead in development phase. This is, IMO, good enough to make WAP version of the site wherever possible. Another issue is adjusting content/usability of your site to mobile devices, but I think you need to be a little more specific in what exactly do you want to know about the topic.
Hi guys Thanks for the responses. We are considering it for a very large site - I was looking for any resources available on the net, or a site or any where I can get some more info. eg. what software to use etc etc etc.
See http://htmlwml.sourceforge.net/ and http://htmlwml.sourceforge.net/docs/readme.html for documentation. html2wml is a PERL script that rewrites an html document as *.wml. In my limited testing, it works very well. Opera's small screen rendering supports wml, so testing is straightforward—at least for Opera powered wireless devices. Small devices that I'm aware of, do a good job with html, except for (i)frames. I've been told by some in the cell-phone industry (coders, not marketers) that they're bypassing wml. //edit: Sorry, I noticed too late this thread is 2½ years old, and I was responding to a spam post. cheers, gary