Webmaster's Guide to the Wireless Internet part 26. 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 | 222 Chapter 5 Wireless Development Kits a result of how the SmartPhone Emulator is actually viewing each file internally and the messages should probably be ignored. The SmartPhone Emulator also has variable debugging capabilities. Let s create a more complex WML deck and see how variables are handled. Save this as c wap xml version DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC - WAPFORUM DTD WML EN http DTD wml card id home title SmartPhone Emulator demo p Name input type text name name p do type accept go href showname do card card id showname title My name is. p Hello name. Welcome. p card wml Let s look at this in the Ericsson R380. Select it from the workspace pane on the top left then load the file via the menu bar. The Ericsson R380 is a touchscreen device so click your mouse between the angle brackets to bring up the text entry screen. Type in consuelo and then click on the arrow icon in the bottom-right corner of the emulator will be taken back to the first page but consuelo will appear between the angle brackets now. Click Accept and the resulting screen simply repeats the entered name along with a message. Now we can pull up the variable window. Select the View View Variables menu option and a new window will appear see Figure . You can keep this window open to track the status of your variables as you browse with the emulator. This window also shows your browse history and status messages from the browser. Wireless Development Kits Chapter 5 223 Figure Yospace SmartPhone Emulator Variable Window 224 Chapter 5 Wireless Development Kits Summary You can choose from many available WAP SDKs. Finding the right one can be an extremely difficult and time-consuming task. Each SDK has its strengths and weaknesses but you can use this to your may find yourself using one SDK for your normal development and each of the other ones at different times when it proves .
