Creating a Usable WAP Application

In a HTML browser, the user traditionally has access to a number of navigation tools, including a back button, a forward button, a drop-down list of recently visited URLs, a Go field to enter any URL at will, and possibly a separate history or favorites pane. On a WAP device, only a few of these are readily accessible, and in a different way on each device. As a result, thinking about the navigation patterns for your application becomes more critical.

Backward Navigation

Navigating backward is important to an application because users tend to favor the Back operation for navigating out of an application. Users come to rely on and feel less apprehensive using an application that has good backward-navigation ...

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