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Planning and Building a mobile enabled site for your main site.

We are in the initial planning stages of building out a mobile site for one of our clients. This mobile site will be in addition to the main site that we have already built for them. We've determined that the content is going to be a small subsection of the main site and will target the main audience that is expected to use the site. ...

Is WAP Dead?

7-8 years ago I developed some cool apps using WAP. The mobile phone apps were able to help several in a few local governments, school systems as well as apartment complexes manage their mobile-workforce and various duties they did. Back then the alternative was a Java mobile edition (J2ME I think). What is the best mobile developm...

Is it worth it to use Wap to have cellular webpage?

Is it worth it to develop WAP webpage for cellular since now cellular have browser that is really better than before? I have a PHP website and I would like to increase the use of portable device to use it. Is it worth it to implement. ...

WAP Site vs. Traditional HTML for a Mobile Website

If you had some social networking applications and you wanted your users to interact with them using a mobile device would you use WAP or a slimmed down version of your regular website with HTML? My train of thought is that WAP is dead or at least starting to bleed to death because of all the mobile web browsers available ( Iphone, Oper...

webtest, web application projects, and tfsbuild

I have a web application project (wap) that is successfully being deployed to a development server by our tfsbuild server. I'd like the build server to run our collection of webtests after deployment. What is a best practice (or ANY practice) for doing this? ...

Identifying different mobile handsets and redirecting to different websites

I have 3 mobile versions of a website and would like to present each to different handset models according to what they support. One version is monochromatic WML, another is color WML and another is XHTML for mobile. What's the best way to identify the device in the request and know if it supports a version or another? ...

.mobi is it worth it?

Where is .mobi headed? Will the mobile devices use proprietary browsers that simplify a .com site or are they going to use browsers on a .mobi basis? I have a feeling it will be a flop... not sure though. Thanks ...

How do I detect if the user is on a pc or mobile phone.

I am working on a site and working on a component that will take users using wap or xhtml-mp and redirect them to sites specifically setup for those devices. Is there a good standard way of detecting which of these the user is using? ...

Internal hyperlinks in a MMS

Hi everyone ! Is it possible to put an internal hypertext link (or anchor) inside a MMS. I wan't to offer a user of a MMS service to choose between serveral links and make his way insde the MMS. Any idea how it is possible ? Thanx. ...

WAP Push atop FLASH SMS

Hi, I want to send a WAP Push SI, but I want the message to look like an alert - like FLASH SMS. I've tried to make the SMS carrying the WAP data a FLASH SMS, but the it seems the phone can't handle it. I tried it on a Nokia 6230i. Is there something wrong with what I'm doing, or phones in general won't handle WAP over FLASH SMS as I e...

Making mixed numeric and alpha entry easier for mobile browers

I'm refurbishing a simple web-app that our field techs use. One of my goals is to make it Blackberry-friendly, as all of the techs are now using those. This app accepts basic information about a job and stores it. Among that info are times, telephone numbers, and a street address. I have the time fields and telephone fields figured out...

Audio/video streaming to mobile browsers

I am developing a WAP/mobile website that would allow users to stream audio/video (although the priority is audio) via their mobile browsers.. For music I would be streaming mp3 files, and for video I would be streaming flv and 3gp files (but mostly 3gp). Can anyone recommend solutions (i.e. what to use and/or a point to the right dire...

WAP Push SMS in Symbian

I have managed to send out (and receive) binary SMSs, but what I want to accomplish is to send Access Point settings or bookmarks or Email settings etc. Currently I'm sending out messages like: //udh=0605040B8423F0 //message=FD0601AE02056A0045C60C037777772E676F6F676C65...000101 //udh iMessage->Des().Append(0x06); iMessage->...

What is the difference between "SMS Push" and "WAP Push"?

The terms WAP Push and SMS Push seems to both be used when talking about pushing messages to a mobile application to trigger download of WAP content. Do the terms refer to the same mechanism or do they have different meaning? ...

Polling GPS position via wap page

Hi to all, I'm in the middle of writing a project that is web driven, and part of the application will be a data logging exercise carried out by our team of guards. What I need to know is : Is there any way to write the WAP page to poll the phone's GPS system for a location, and pass that up in to one of the database fields? I don't mind...

OMA Email Notification WAP Push trouble...

I'm trying to send an OMA Email Notification(EMN) 1.0 WAP-Push, to a mobile device in order to make it fetch the newest emails for a given mailbox. My problem is that nothing happens when the mobile receives the SMS. I tested with an Nokia E71, which ought to have the specification implemented according to Nokia's own technical specs. ...

WAP vs XHTML-MP

Hi, Last year we develop intranet web site using WAP and ASP.NET for server side, the site was already on production and was considered successful. We use low end handset which had built in Openwave version 6. Now we update the application using XHTML-MP, because we think this will be the future mobile application technology that will ...

Make a site automatically choose between the WAP or normal version?

I have a website with the following files in the root folder: index.wml index.php How do I get it to open index.php if you are accessing via non-wap browsers, but open index.wml automatically when it is a wap browser. I suspect something must go in the .htaccess file? ...

How to find out the mobile model using WAP page

I am planning on making a WAP page to provide a software. Now i need to find out what mobile phone model the client who logs into my webpage is using so that i can redirect him/her to the appropriate download link. This is similar to what opera does on their opera mini site. When you log in it finds out your model and sends you to the ...

.NET WAP Publish Question - CodeFile included in publish

I am using a Web Application Project to develop some web user controls (c#). In the WAP the user control directive contains the codefile and inherits attributes. When I publish the WAP to the target website. The dll from bin is copied correctly to the bin of the website, the user controls (.ascx files) are copied correctly. When I per...