[WEB4LIB] DELIVERING WML

[Andrew Mutch]

Thomas Dowling noted earlier this week the use of CSS to be able to define your
output based upon the media being used to present the content.  Couldn't this
also apply to the "wireless"/PDA environment?  I sure as heck don't have time to
learn another markup language even though I recognize the need to meet the needs
of this growing community.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

John Harvey wrote:

> For users of Dreamweaver, Nokia has developed "WML Studio", a free extension
> that allows the creation of WML (wireless markup language) within
> Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG editor. It includes a preview function that emulates
> several wireless handset displays (all Nokia; imagine that).
>
> You can find it at http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/
>
> Embrace the future 8^>
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> John C Harvey
> Irving Public Library
> jharvey at irving.lib.tx.us
>
> In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one
> wants, and the other is getting it.  -Oscar Wilde
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JQ Johnson [SMTP:jqj at darkwing.uoregon.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:06 PM
> > To:   Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject:      [WEB4LIB] Re: More on Wireless Librarian
> >
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> > Palm type devices create their own opportunities and problems.  For
> > example, it is likely that the next couple of generations of such devices
> > will have very small screens and low bandwidth connections to the web.
> > There is much interest in WAP and WML as an alternative to HTTP and HTML
> > for delivery of web-page-like information.  On the other hand, they are
> > likely to be ubiquitous, cheap, and well integrated with the phone system.
> > Etc.  We're obviously going to have standards and OS wars, with the PalmOS
> > devices encouraging very different approaches to information delivery from
> > the WinCE devices.
> >
> > So what are we as libraries going to do about them?
> >