Webmaster's Guide to the Wireless Internet part 7. The Webmaster’s Guide to the Wireless Internet provides the Wireless Webmaster with all of the tools necessary to build the next generation Internet. Packed with the essential information they need to design, develop, and secure robust, e-commerce enabled wireless Web sites. This book is written for advanced Webmasters who are experienced with conventional Web site design and are now faced with the challenge of creating sites that fit on the display of a Web enabled phone or PDA | 32 Chapter 1 Moving from the Web to Wireless Another technology that looks set to change the landscape of mobile phones is Microsoft s new Stinger phone. Microsoft is not making the actual hardware itself leaving that to several major OEMs but they have designed a totally new operating system for them. Stinger is first and foremost a mobile phone with every feature of the interface optimized for one-handed use. But it will also allow users to access the Internet as well as connect directly to their Outlook inboxes. Stinger relies heavily on Microsoft s Mobile Information Server MIS a new enterprise server application designed specifically for the mobile Internet. One interesting feature of MIS that attempts to compensate for the slow data speeds of current networks is the ability to have the server selectively remove certain portions of a piece of content thus cutting down on the amount of data sent. For instance if you re on a particularly slow connection and in a hurry you might choose to have it remove all articles and prepositions from your e-mail messages. It s even possible to remove all white this might initially sound bizarre condensed e-mails are actually quite readable at least enough to decide whether you want to download the entire message. There are also optional modules available for the Handspring Visor PDA that allow you to attach a microphone and speaker to the device and use it as a phone. As PDAs become more expandable we can reasonably assume that provided there is demand for it more devices will be capable of this cross-functionality. Occupying a space somewhere between the laptop and a PDA the Tablet PC is a recent arrival on the by nature this is basically a large touchsensitive screen roughly the size of a small laptop screen and less than an inch thick. Data input is via either handwriting recognition or an on-screen virtual this device was initially introduced almost a decade ago it failed then due
