[Zope] WAP/WML for Cell Phone Wireless Web?

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> "Cary O'Brien" wrote
> If I understand it correctly, your phone sends out a request
> which is turned into a http request by the cell phone 
> company.  The site then returns wml (an xml doctype), not html, 
> which deals with things like what the buttons do, as well as 
> encoding whatever content you can fit on the tiny screen.
> So all a zope site would have to do is add a new mime type
> (not sure what it is), and serve up the wml rather than html.
> 
> Using zope DTML and regular zope stuff to handle common menus
> and control of pages should all fall together.
> 
> The only things that would have to be changed (and I don't know
> how to do this) are:
> 
> 	1) mime type	
> 	2) file suffix (.wml instead of .html)

You'd also have to produce the files in WML rather than HTML.

The way I was thinking about it was to have two sets of template
pages - one produces HTML, the other WML. The alternative is to
have one set that produce XML, and convert them on the way out
of the system. You'd probably also have to restructure your web
applications to better suite the WML model.

The other thing you need is a phone company willing to let you
supply them WML so that they can send it to the phones (there's
WAP-over-SMS, but I don't want to think about how slow and expensive
that would be).


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