How to Write for Both Languages

Hopefully, you are convinced that even if you have an existing, sophisticated HTML site, providing a WML interface to your content (rather than relying on translation) is a good idea. You probably would not be reading this book if you didn't already think so anyway. So when you start building the WML side of your application, there are some things to think about.

Phone Considerations

The WAP client is a phone first and foremost, and for your application to be compelling it needs to take this fact into account. You can cause the phone to make a phone call, you can deliver a real-time alert to some phones, and phones have numbered keypads, not keyboards. How you present your data is significant. When you think about ...

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