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WAP & WML

Notes 5.8 Review Questions

1. Explain how the role of WML in mobile Internet applications is the same as that of HTML
in web applications?

2. Write a simple WML code and explain all the elements in it.
3. Decks send requests for services and/or to be carried out on servers. Explain.
4. “WML (Wireless Markup Language) is the new web language for making sites on mobile
phones”. Comment.
5. The roots of WAP are rather interesting, as they are built on the premise of industry
cooperation. Discuss.

6. When a WML page is accessed from a mobile phone, all the cards in the page are downloaded
from the WAP server. Explain.
7. What are cards? What should be the minimum number of cards in a deck?

8. A WML file can contain multiple cards and they form a deck. Explain with proper examples.
9. A card element can contain text, markup, links, input-fields, tasks, images and more.
Explain with proper examples.

10. Navigation traverses from card within a deck. Once loaded, the deck resides in device’s
memory. Discuss.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. DECKS 2. Navigation

3. <wml>...</wml> 4. one or more
5. first 6. <card>
7. “id” 8. Links
9. WAP 10. Browser

11. Data 12. HTML
13. Application 14. Specified
15. <noop>

5.9 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.

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