Palm WCA
When Palm Computing released the Palm VII, it introduced a Web application format called Web Clipping Applications (WCAs), also known as Palm Query Applications (PQAs). These terms are synonymous. PQAs are written in a subset of HTML 3.2, with a handful of special metadata tags and a few other conventions. A proxy server at the wireless service provider’s site translates them into PQA format. PQAs are actually Palm record databases, with each page and image stored as a separate record. Web-enabled Palms are equipped with an internal application, called a Web clipper that reads the PQAs.
PQAs are typically built so that all static elements of a page reside on the handheld, while dynamic content is updated from the Internet. This approach ...
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