Use of content-only markups like RSS and other micro-formats is also on a rise. With
this, the device itself can decide how to present the information, while the website
only provides the content.
What About WAP?
If you have been around the technology industry for a while, you may remember the
hype around mobile web and WAP in the 1999 ??“ 2000 days??”just before the bubble
burst. You may also remember the phone Neo used in the movie The Matrix. That
phone was Nokia 7100, the first phone to support WAP??”Wireless Access Protocol.
WAP is the protocol to access the Internet from a mobile device. It provided an XML
based language??”Wireless Markup Language (WML), using which you could do
mobile web application development.
Though served over normal HTTP server, the WAP architecture has a gateway
between the server and the client. This gateway encodes the content in binary form
to save bandwidth before sending it to the client and allows monitoring usage by the
service provider.
The WAP specifications have evolved over time, and the standard now is WAP 2.0.
This adopts an XHTML variant??”XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML-MP). XHTML-MP
offers richer presentation and is very similar to HTML.
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