Table support in
mobile browsers is flaky, so you should avoid tables or use them minimally. We will
discuss specific issues of individual elements as we go further.
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XHTML MP Does Not Support Many WML
Features
If you have developed WAP applications, you would be interested in finding the
differences between WML (Wireless Markup Language??”the predecessor of XHTML
MP) and XHTML MP; apart from the obvious syntactical differences. You need to
understand this also while porting an existing WML-based application to XHTML
MP. Most of WML is easily portable to XHTML MP, but some features require
workarounds. Some features are not supported at all, so if you need them, you
should use WML instead of XHTML MP. WML 1.x will be supported in any mobile
device that conforms to XHTML MP standards.
Here is a list of important WML features that are not available in XHTML MP:
There is no metaphor of decks and cards. Everything is a page. This means
you cannot pre-fetch content in different cards and show a card based on
some action. With XHTML MP, you either have to make a new server request
for getting new content, or use named anchors and link within the page.
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