It is alleged that Mike Castle once typed:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:14:45AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > Has anyone seen the WAP specifications? This is the
> > first good news in a long time.
> I thought the WAP stuff required a substantial ($10,000?) licensing fee.
> Or is that just for the use of the actual wireless stuff?
That's confusing WAP with WML.
> Is it at the same level as HTTP? Or lower level, kind of like TCP/IP?
WML is served over HTTP, normally to a WAP gateway which compresses
it, lumps it into a binary chunk and delivers it to a mobile device.
The WAP gateway can involve a large price, though there are a couple
of freeware versions ou therre. Joing the WAP forum is expensive.
But serving WML is 6 lines in your mimetypes file. Lynx and WML could
be a good match. Though of course WML still allows for graphics.
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Robm
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