It is alleged that Vlad Harchev once typed:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
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> > So was this using WAP? Or was Amazon giving out a different URL and/or
> > sending out different code based on UserAgent?
> Most probably it's not using WAP (seems WAP/WML are too young).
I believe that you can order from Amazon via WAP, but I'm not certain.
> As for Pilot - I don't know too. But I guess it's greatly simplified html (I
> haven't looked at amazon.com yet). For example, www.linuxtoday.com/palm is a
> version of linuxtoday.com for pilot - and it's plain html, but with no
> tables (fortunately, it's not a PRE text) (though it uses <font> with size=
> and color=).
WML is a subset of sgml and is well documented, any web server can
server wml pages it just requires adding about 6 new mimetypes. The
new technology with the heavily licensed stuff is the WAP gateway,
which is a form of proxy. There is however a beta freeware version of
this.
The wapgateway requests the wml pages and compresses them into a
binary format for transmission to the WAP enabled device. But this
doesn't have to be done.
> > I'd really like to know. There are times I'd use the 'mini pages' from
> > Lynx to gain even more speed..
> As I said, all info about WAP/WML can be acquired from www.phone.com.
Or wwww.wapforum.org
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