Webmaster's Guide to the Wireless Internet part 51. 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 | 472 Appendix Webmaster s Guide to the Wireless Internet Fast Track Chapter 2 Continued Adopting Wireless Standards 0 Many wireless standards are out there. Find out what your audience has access to and build your site accordingly. 0 WAP is the standard that currently has the most momentum but this could change as companies experiment and roll out other technologies Noting the Market for Wireless Browsers and Other Applications 0 A variety of applications are available for mobile devices. The one you can almost guarantee will be available is the WAP browser however. 0 Java2 Micro Edition is poised as an interesting player in the mobile data can write an application once that can run on any brand of phone and on any network. 0 Old technologies such as SMS are still going strong. Device manufacturers are slowly overcoming the limitations of SMS and the concept of SMS is being expanded on to include multimedia capabilities. Chapter 3 A New Markup WML A Brief History of Wireless Content 0 The Intelligent Terminal Transfer Protocol ITTP was developed by Ericsson in 1995. Unwired Planet developed the Handheld Device Markup Language HDML in mid-1996 and made it available to Tagged Text Markup Language TTML developed by Nokia Corporation and the Extensible Markup Language XML had become available around the same time. 0 In June 1997 Nokia and Unwired Planet formed The WAP Forum also bringing together Motorola and initial founders represented over 90 percent of the wireless market. The WAP Forum s primary goal was to develop a protocol that could be built on any platform to allow users to interact with services and information as fast and efficiently as possible and to promote product interoperability. Webmaster s Guide to the Wireless Internet Fast Track Appendix 473 Chapter 3 Continued 0 The WAP Forum examined the various markup languages being offered by the different companies and took the best aspects of each to .
