WAP Devices

WAP clients are devices—for now phones, but in the future other wireless devices too. These devices all have two common characteristics:

  • An integrated browser, called a micro-browser

  • A mechanism for user input, which can range from a couple of buttons on simple models to entire banks of buttons with roll bars and touch screens on higher-end (and future) models

As you can imagine, with each device being different, the capabilities and features on each differs too. WAP is designed to be very device independent; the code you write for one device should work on all devices. But there is a big difference between working and working as intended. Different devices implement different features in different ways, and that makes for a very inconsistent ...

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