Wireless Web Development

Wireless Web Development
Authors
Ray Rischpater
ISBN
1893115208
Published
01 May 2000
Purchase online
amazon.com

As developers move into the still largely untapped market of the wireless Web, they must learn to create solutions that take new considerations, such as small screens and sluggish transfer speeds, into account. Wireless Web Development is an excellent introduction to the field and provides a well-rounded education of the issues of network technology and content development.

Editorial Reviews

Wireless development is poised to be the next Internet revolution, but will require skills most Web content developers don't have...this book teaches the reader how to write wireless content using HTML, WAP and HCDML.

As developers move into the still largely untapped market of the wireless Web, they must learn to create solutions that take new considerations, such as small screens and sluggish transfer speeds, into account. Wireless Web Development is an excellent introduction to the field and provides a well-rounded education of the issues of network technology and content development.

Because most readers will be coming fresh into the wireless world, author Ray Rischpater invests significant space in laying out the terrain of the wireless landscape with a look at the history of the technology, as well as the future, based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the Wireless Markup Language (WML). The issue of which language to go with--HDML or WML--is handled right away: both. An excellent discussion explains the reason.

One outstanding section expounds on synchronized browser technology and the unique demands of mobile Web users. Server-side scripting, with languages such as PHP, is presented to show how to make the best use of server resources to deliver powerful content; WMLScript--the wireless counterpart to JavaScript--is covered thoroughly, too.

It's clear that the wireless Web is in the future of any and every Web developer. Wireless Web Development is a great first step in getting educated thusly. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered:

  • Technology history
  • Wireless market profile
  • User interfaces
  • Performance
  • Web synchronization
  • Server-side scripting
  • WAP
  • WML
  • HDML
  • WMLScript
  • Custom wireless applications

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