Welcome to the wireless Internet*
19. Welcome to the
wireless Internet*
WAP (short for Wireless Application Protocol) is to mobile devices what
WWW (World Wide Web) is to desktop computers. The mobile community
began developing WAP several years ago to give mobile device users
access to the internet. Today, most WAP sites are made up of text and
hyperlinks, with some capable of text input and selection items in a list.
Some pages even contain low-resolution graphics. Because your service
provider and others are free to design WAP sites as they choose, each site
can vary almost as much as a web page on the Internet.