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Unit 7: Managing Outputs

7.6 Review Questions Notes

1. Navigation between the cards is done by the phone computer - inside the phone - without
any extra access trips to the server. Explain.

2. WML has two line-wrapping modes for visual user agents: breaking (or wrapping) and
non-breaking (or non-wrapping). Discuss.
3. Empty paragraphs, such as an empty element or an element with only insignificant white
space, should be considered as insignificant and ignored by visual user agents. Analyze.
4. If the p element in a card does not specify a line-wrap or alignment mode, that mode
defaults to the initial mode for the card. Explain with an example.
5. Discuss how WML supports both named and numeric character entities?
6. Explain which character entity formats WML supports?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. card 2. Web content

3. WAP server 4. DTD
5. less memory 6. markup
7. line wrap 8. HTML
9. soft-hyphen 10. p tag

11. numeric 12. escaped
7.7 Further Readings

Books Demon Hougland, Essential WAP for Professional, 2001, Prentice Hall PTR.
Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell, 2006, O’Reilly.
Jon Orwant, Web Graphics & Perl/TK: Best of the Perl Journal 2003 O’ Reilly.
Paul Wallace Andrea Hoffmann, Mika Tuppola, I – Mode Developer Guide, 2002.

Online links http://www.developershome.com/wap/wml/wmlSendingData.asp
http://www.xml.com/pub/rg/WML_Tutorials

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