Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)



Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network. A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that uses the protocol.

Before the introduction of WAP, mobile service providers had limited opportunities to offer interactive data services, but needed interactivity to support Internet and Web applications such as:
Email by mobile phone
Tracking of stock-market prices
Sports results
News headlines
Music downloads

The Japanese i-mode system offers another major competing wireless data protocol. As of 2013, WAP use has largely disappeared in Europe and the United States. Most modern handset internet browsers now support full HTML, so do not need to use WAP markup for webpage compatibility.Continue Reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Learn WAP Online
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/wap/
http://174.37.163.146-static.reverse.softlayer.com/wap/

 


How WAP Works 

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