I don't see what the fuss is, to be honest. WAP is the easiest technology conversion I've had to make in the last two years.
HOW to do WAP ( Taken from http://ali.as/ ) Simply set the MIME type for.wml files ( or anything else ) to text/vnd.wap.wml and that's it! WAP server setup complete.
Example: http://ali.as/wap/wap.wml ( doesn't work in a normal browser )
The other thing you want to do is set index.wml as an index file... since every keystroke they have to type in will be a pain for mobile users, at least the phone ones anyway.
Next, CGI ( or servlets, or whatever ). Given you now know the magic WAP MIME type ( text/vnd.wap.wml, simply get your program to spit out the MIME type. Perl example would be
print "Content-type: text/vnd.wap.wml\n\n";
I imagine it would not be THAT hard to change the Content-type line of the header in JSP... A collegue is mentioning to me that all you need to do is something like
Method addHeader( 'Content-type', 'text/vnd.wap.wml' ); in the interface HttpServletResponse in the class javax.servlet.http
All you have to do then is write in WML, which isn't that difficult to learn.
To do that, I highly recommend the WAP Phone Simulator provided in the Unwired Planet SDK 4.0
Impressed by the ease with which he handles ``contemporary software'', Microsoft Thailand recently certified Ajay as the youngest software executive in the world.
For one, what exactly IS a "software executive". I don't ever recall people with a MSCE being called Software Executives.
And it sure looks to me like he didn't do his MSCE exams... although I've seen stories of 12-14 year olds doing them. At that age you can grasp the concepts involved, but not at 3! The kid is simply a 3 year old who can press buttons, and type emails. The word "certified" used in that article has been taken totally out of context.
This story is simply about some poor kid who has worked out how to send email and do things in Office programs. As my marketting manager always tells me "Use terms that are technically meaningless" but sound cool.
"We are the leading software company in the world"
"Our software is more better, more dynamic, and totally sploogerific."
Microsoft have called this guy a "software executive", which technically means nothing so they can't be challenged on it, and have latched onto him for the cuteness factor.
Show me where it says he has his MSCE, and I'll believe he's "certified".
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Well I must say that's kind of odd, as a friend of mine who worked on the set until this week when they jetted off to tunisia would say otherwise.
Her sister ( who got her the job ) is the puppeteer who controls R2D2 ( the fiddly outside bits I guess ).
Of course, I would definately expect they would do do a partial mix of both CGI and live action like in E1, but a complete replacement?
Adam
I don't see what the fuss is, to be honest. WAP is the easiest technology conversion I've had to make in the last two years.
.wml files ( or anything else ) to text/vnd.wap.wml and that's it! WAP server setup complete.
HOW to do WAP ( Taken from http://ali.as/ )
Simply set the MIME type for
Example: http://ali.as/wap/wap.wml ( doesn't work in a normal browser )
The other thing you want to do is set index.wml as an index file... since every keystroke they have to type in will be a pain for mobile users, at least the phone ones anyway.
Next, CGI ( or servlets, or whatever ).
Given you now know the magic WAP MIME type ( text/vnd.wap.wml, simply get your program to spit out the MIME type. Perl example would be
print "Content-type: text/vnd.wap.wml\n\n";
I imagine it would not be THAT hard to change the Content-type line of the header in JSP... A collegue is mentioning to me that all you need to do is something like
Method addHeader( 'Content-type', 'text/vnd.wap.wml' ); in the interface HttpServletResponse in the class javax.servlet.http
All you have to do then is write in WML, which isn't that difficult to learn.
To do that, I highly recommend the WAP Phone Simulator provided in the Unwired Planet SDK 4.0
AdamK
Hang on a second.
Impressed by the ease with which he handles ``contemporary software'', Microsoft Thailand recently certified Ajay as the youngest software executive in the world.
For one, what exactly IS a "software executive". I don't ever recall people with a MSCE being called Software Executives.
And it sure looks to me like he didn't do his MSCE exams... although I've seen stories of 12-14 year olds doing them. At that age you can grasp the concepts involved, but not at 3! The kid is simply a 3 year old who can press buttons, and type emails. The word "certified" used in that article has been taken totally out of context.
This story is simply about some poor kid who has worked out how to send email and do things in Office programs. As my marketting manager always tells me "Use terms that are technically meaningless" but sound cool.
"We are the leading software company in the world"
"Our software is more better, more dynamic, and totally sploogerific."
Microsoft have called this guy a "software executive", which technically means nothing so they can't be challenged on it, and have latched onto him for the cuteness factor.
Show me where it says he has his MSCE, and I'll believe he's "certified".
Adam
"Sleep is for the genetically inferior"