On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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?
Most probably it's not using WAP (seems WAP/WML are too young).
As for Pilot - I don't know too. But I guess it's greatly simplified html (I
haven't looked at amazon.com yet). For example, www.linuxtoday.com/palm is a
version of linuxtoday.com for pilot - and it's plain html, but with no
tables (fortunately, it's not a PRE text) (though it uses <font> with size=
and color=).
> I'd really like to know. There are times I'd use the 'mini pages' from
> Lynx to gain even more speed..
>
As I said, all info about WAP/WML can be acquired from www.phone.com.
Best regards,
-Vlad
