"SFantar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello everybody > > > Is there any Perl module for WAP programming generating web pages readable > on mobile phones? > > I had a look at http://cpan.perl.org but the results found did not help me > very much. > Thanks in advance for your help. >
The only difference between programming web applications for the browser in cell phones and desktop browsers is the... well... difference in browsers. In other words, you don't really need special modules for WAP programming because the existing modules for building web applications suffice just fine. This is the principle; in reality, capabilities differ from phone to phone, things work in some phones that don't work in others, etcetera, etcetera. The base technology for rendering web apps on cell phones is xhtml. Now that we're talking about xhtml, we've come full circle and back to the basic concept that developing apps for cell phones is no different than developing desktop web apps. The most popular web browser found in cell phones is made by openwave. Personally, I consider the openwave browser the "standard" (If a phone dosen't have an openwave browser, it is not worth supporting). They have an extensive developer resource found at http://developer.openwave.com/. They have free SDKs (if you choose to use them... remember, these are plain ol' web apps), and free simulators (very, very useful). An alternative solution to WAP is MDIP, a java based technology (http://java.sun.com/products/midp/). This is the technology used in tools like google maps mobile (http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html). For the sake of simplification, one could call MDIP "Flash for cellphones". Todd W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
