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Unit 2: Basic of a Good WAP Application

Palmscape Notes

Palmscape was a freeware browser for the PalmOS ,written in Japan, and still in limited use.

Opera Browser

Opera Browser emerged with its Small Screen Rendering technology. Opera Browser is able to
relay out regular Web pages that can fit on small screens and medium-sized (PDA) screens. It
was able the first widely available mobile browser to support Ajax.
Some other Micro Browsers

Some of the more popular default browsers WAP micro browsers are:
 Blazer by Palm
 Embider by Infraware
 Nokia Series 40 browsers by Nokia

 Nokia Web browsers by Nokia
 Opera Mobile by Opera Software ASA: capable for reading HTML and reformat for small
screens

 Picsel browser by Picsel Technologies
 Play station portable web browser by Microsoft Inc.
 Wapaka Browser java micro-browser by Digital Airways

 Web browser for S60 by Nokia.
User installable WAP browsers are the browsers that are not provided with the WAP operating
system. You need to install them before developing a WAP application. Following are the
certain user-instable WAP Browsers available:
 Bluelark bought Anygraaf Oy
 Minimo by Mozilla Foundation

 MobileLeap
 Novarran web
 Opera browser
 Opera mini
 Web viewer by Reqwireless.

Did u know? What is Mobile Browsers?
WAP micro browsers are a kind of web browsers, which is also known as mini browsers
and mobile browsers.

2.2 Generic WML Interface

WML stands for Wireless Markup Language. It is a mark-up language inherited from HTML, but
WML is based on XML, so it is much stricter than HTML.

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