27 July 2009

WAP


What is WAP?


The wireless industry came up with the idea of WAP. The point of this
standard was to show internet contents on wireless clients, like mobile phones.



  • WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol

  • WAP is an application communication protocol

  • WAP is used to access services and information

  • WAP is inherited from Internet standards

  • WAP is for handheld devices such as mobile phones

  • WAP is a protocol designed for micro browsers

  • WAP enables the creating of web applications for mobile devices.

  • WAP uses the mark-up language WML (not HTML)

  • WML is defined as an XML 1.0 application