WML (or) XHTML ? - Mobile Development

18 New Member

Hi,

I want to develope a effective mobile compatible site.

But, I don't know which markup language will be efficient and compactible with most of the browsers.

Should I use WML or XHTML MP ?

Which will provide higher level of compactible with most of the browsers?

Pl do reply me.

Apr 4 '07 #1

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missshaikh

New Member

Hi,

When we are using the XHTML then it will more computable. XHTML can alow the TAGS of HTML but WML not have all the HTML TAGS.

like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Font Style</title>
</head>

<body>

Bold 
Italic 
Bold italic 
Small 
<big>Big</big> 
Emphasis 
Strong

</body>
</html>

it is simple and same as HTML.

so you may use XHTML.

Apr 4 '07 #2

dhillarun

New Member

Actually, I want to know the language which will be compatible with (or) suportted by most of the WAP Browsers.

Apr 5 '07 #3

kestrel

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Recognized Expert Top Contributor

WML will be more compatible with phone browsers, so thats the safe bet. WML so its pretty much guaranteed to work, as long as your syntax is correct.

HTML and XHTML are gaining popularity with micro browsers, but not all phones will have this capability.

May 17 '07 #4

theoriginals

New Member

WML is more compatible, but much more basic.

You should really take a look at the WURFL project at sourceforge.net. If you implement this, you can detect the device capabilities that are looking at your site and then serve up content tailored to fit - size and type of images, markup language, and anything else such as specific Javascipt versions etc etc..

Matthew

May 18 '07 #5

theoriginals

New Member

also I'd take a trip to dot mobi for a very good report on mobile internet development.

M

May 18 '07 #6

kapilp

New Member

WML is old news. Even the deck rendering model is obsolete. I would definetly go with XHTML. The majority of mobile handsets do support XHTML 1.0.

Please see the following links.

http://dev.mobi/

http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Mar 15 '08 #7

RedSon

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Recognized Expert Expert

WML is old news. Even the deck rendering model is obsolete. I would definetly go with XHTML. The majority of mobile handsets do support XHTML 1.0.

Please see the following links.

http://dev.mobi/

http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Who owns the .mobi tld?

Mar 16 '08 #8

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