GRCC mobile device (WML) and text browser access

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WAP Tutorial (w3schools)

Mobile Phone emulators

WAP SDK

Get your own WAP site

Lynx (text browser)
Now you can view GRCC pages, which are stored in an Oracle database, using two other techniques.
First is text only: very fast, no images.
Second is WAP: mobile device XML based markup language.

Grcc WAP/WML site: http://www.grcc.edu/wml/
Try this link on your web enabled mobile phone!

Grcc TEXT site: http://www.grcc.edu/text/
Linux and Unix users

What is WAP?
The wireless industry came up with the idea of WAP. The point of this standard was to show internet contents on wireless clients, like mobile phones.
  • WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol
  • WAP is an application communication protocol
  • WAP is used to access services and information
  • WAP is inherited from Internet standards
  • WAP is for handheld devices such as mobile phones
  • WAP is a protocol designed for micro browsers
  • WAP enables the creating of web applications for mobile devices.
  • WAP uses the mark-up language WML (not HTML)
  • WML is defined as an XML 1.0 application 


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Updated on 03-SEP-02
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