Learning WML & WMLScript  


                 The next generation of mobile commun  icators is here, and delivering contt to them will mean programming in 
                 WML (Wireless Markup Language) and WMLScript, the languages of the Wireless Application Environment (WAE).  
                 The WAE allows information in almost all applications to b formatted for display on mole devices, such as cell 
                 phones, and enables the user to interact with the information.  

                 Why learn yet another technology? According to some es  timates, 75 percent of webdocument viewing by the 
                 year 2002 will be through non-desktop devices, many using wireless technologies. Clearly, the future is wireless. 
                 For web developers who want to get up to speed quickly in these languages,  Learning WML & WMLScript  maps  
                 out in detail the WAE and its two major components, WML and WMLScript.   


                 Fortunately, the WAE provides a World Wide Web-like mo  del for writing applications, incorporating several key  
                 features of the Web to ease the transition for developers. Almost all less applications can be written with 
                 WML, which replaces HTML in  the wireless environment, and WMLScript,  which replaces JavaScript. With this  
                 book, web developers with some knowledge of programming     and C, Java, or JavaScript syntax can easily master  
                 both languages.   

                 Chapter by chapter, Learning WML & WMLScript    takes readers through the following WML topics:  


                           Decks, templates and cards   
                         
                           User Interaction   
                           Variables and contexts   

                           Tasks, events, and timers   

                           Text and text formatting   

                           Images  

                 WMLScript topics include:   


                           Data types, conversions and variables   

                           Operators and expressions   
                         
                           Statements   
                           Functions   

                           Standard libraries  


                 Learning WML & WMLScript   is the resource of choice for applicatidevelopers who want to upgrade their skills 
                 and their sites so they won't be lefugged in during the wireless revolution.