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WAP is Dead, Long Live WAP
antimatt writes "Everyone knows WAP is dead. It was dead on arrival. Right? Wrong. WAP use, at least in the UK, is up 42% in the last year. Are we seeing postmortem twitching, or a phoenix rising from the wireless ashes?" While the first incarnation was pretty rough, WAP is slowly growing into what people had hoped the first version would be. Now if only it just lost the stigma attached to it.
well.. actually most of the useful sites to browse from phone are writtin in either html or xhtml-mp, but reachable through 'wap'gateway(important billing wise with some operators)...
with the modern phones any decently put together site is viewable pretty well, as long as the creators weren't too narrow minded.
(though, there was a 'need' for wap, it was to minimize the amount of data needed to transfer and to make the browsers simple/small, however as tech progresses so quickly they should have realised that by the time this thing would catch on it wouldnt be too costly to have a semi-full html browser)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Check out Vindigo.
An entire Palm application, for $25/year, that does everything you want it to do.
The best $25 I ever spent on my Clie.
It can also do wireless sync'ing, so you can update the information from your Treo easily.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
This topic has been already discussed at /. February 2004: What Do You Use WAP For?. I still can see from the footprints of mobile cell phones in my Apache log files, that many people are using the WAP format of TuxMobil - Linux On Laptops, PDAs and Mobile Cell Phones. Also the i-mode format is used, too.
Google has a WAP proxy. Go to wap.google.com on your cellphone, enter http://slashdot.org/palm as the search term, then select settings and select URL destination, go to the wapalised Slashdot and bookmark that.
At least, thats how I've been reading slashdot for a year or so on my mobile phone.