Learning WML, and WMLScript: Programming the Wireless Web

Martin Frost9781565929470, 1-56592-947-0

The next generation of mobile communicators is here, and delivering content to them will mean programming in WML (Wireless Markup Language) and WMLScript, the languages of the Wireless Application Environment (WAE). The WAE allows information in almost all applications to be formatted for display on mobile devices, such as cell phones, and enables the user to interact with the information. Why learn yet another technology? According to some estimates, 75 percent of all web document viewing by the year 2002 will be through non- desktop devices, many using wireless technologies. Clearly, the future is wireless. For web developers who want to get up to speed quickly in these languages, Learning WML & WMLScript maps out in detail the WAE and its two major components, WML and WMLScript. It’s the resource of choice for application developers who are in a hurry to upgrade their skills and their sites so they won’t be left plugged in during the wireless revolution.