The History of WAP

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A little-known company called Unwired Planet created one of the first mass-market microbrowser and a markup language called Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) . HDML met with limited success and was used by a few individual vendors in the U.S. Upon seeing that an interested market existed for this language, Unwired Planet established an open standard so that the company could make HDML the " next big thing" in mobile information access.

To do this, Unwired Planet talked to some of the major players in the mobile device world (at the time, mobile devices were essentially mobile phones ”PDAs had not come onto the scene yet). Ericsson, Nokia, and Motorola were approached and introduced to the idea of an open and unified standard.

This standard was Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) . Almost immediately, a managing group for the standard was formed , called the WAP Forum . Because of WAP Forum's efforts, WAP has become the dominant medium for wireless application development.

You might be wondering what happened to HDML. It hasn't disappeared entirely; however, WAP has all but replaced it. WAP received more press coverage than HDML and it is the standard for handheld and mobile device development.

After the success of WAP and its predecessor HDML, Unwired Planet changed its name to Phone.com, the company behind the popular range of UP browsers and servers to most of the WAP vendors in the U.S.

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XML and ASP. NET
XML and ASP.NET
ISBN: B000H2MXOM
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Year: 2005
Pages: 184

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