On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> WAP is Wireless Application Protocol - protocol used by wireless clients such
>as cellular phones to connect to Inet.
> WML - wireless markup language - it's SGML DTD designed for representing
>document structure like HTML, but it more targeted at interactivity with the
>user (ie specifying hotkeys) etc.
...
> As for WML/WAP in lynx - I suspect that huge license fees are need to be paid
>to protocol designers in order to allow support for this protocol in the
>browser (or something like this - AFAIR).
Well, I bought a book from Amazon on someone's Pilot over the weekend.
(with their permission).
It used the built in wireless, not a Ricochet (which apparently can then use
close to a 'real' browser).
So was this using WAP? Or was Amazon giving out a different URL and/or
sending out different code based on UserAgent?
I'd really like to know. There are times I'd use the 'mini pages' from
Lynx to gain even more speed..
