WAP, WML and WMLScript

Essential Reading

Lecture slides Introduction to WAP and WML, PowerPoint (560k)
Lecture notes Introduction to WAP and WML, Word doc (450k)

Resources for the lecture notes

Remember - you need to run these examples in a WAP browser. If you install WinWAP then clicking the WML links in this page will cause your browser to spawn WinWAP. This encounters some problems but copying the WML URL into WinWAP seems to fix things.

The Nokia WAP simulator and WML toolkit is available in the CMS labs.

Example 1 - a three card deck
- URL to run it from is http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~mk05/web/wap/cms1.wml
- Code - cms1.wml
Example 2 - variables
- URL to run it from is http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~mk05/web/wap/vareg.wml
- Code - vareg.wml
Example 3 - interacting with an ASP
- URL to run it from is http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~mk05/web/wap/dating.wml
- WML code - dating.wml
- PHP code - date.php (view source)
- image - heart.wbmp
Example 4 - a timer
- URL to run it from is http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~mk05/web/wap/timer.wml
- WML code - timer.wml
Example 5 - WMLScript
- URL to run it from is http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~mk05/web/wap/dating2.wml
- WML code - dating2.wml
- WMLScript - dating2.wmls
Example 6 - using XSLT to server both WML and HTML
- Can run http://cms2.gre.ac.uk/wg05/wat/wml/wmlegs/books/showBooks.php in an ordinary browser or WAP browser but will see different results
- XML code - goodbooks.xml
- XSLT to transform to HTML - toHTML.xsl
- XSLT to transform to WML - toWML.xsl
- PHP code - showBooks.php

WAP, WML and WMLScript

Essential Reading

Resources for the lecture notes

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