WML for Not Yet Techies 2

"Computer Careers: Wireless Markup Language is the Wireless Version of HTML for High Tech Jobs Creating Web Sites for Users of Wireless Phones and PDA Devices"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Actually, I expect that in the future WML and HTML -- which is already evolving into XML -- to converge

WML was created with XML in sight. WML is fully compliant with XML's rules, and so is really a specialized sublanguage of XML.

This has important implication for wireless users and WML web site designers. It means that search engine results will be more accurate than they are now. Wireless screens can't hold 5 million web sites in response to a query, especially when you're lucky if three of them are what you're actually looking for.

This does imply that although web sites will have fewer visitors, they will more likely be looking for exactly what the web site contains. It will help eliminate the tricks -- at least in these versions of our sites -- that web designers have used to attract traffic from search engines.

So we will need more developers. The industry estimates 100s of million wireless users and web accessers within the next few years, so there will be a big demand for developers who can satisfy this market.

WAP 1.2.1 was released in July 2000. The next version could come out at any time. You can download the technical specifications from: The WAP Forum.

Someday, using WML to design a wireless version is going to be a standard part of designing web sites. I haven't gotten around to designing a WAP version of this site yet, but eventually I'm going to have to.

So everybody with web ambitions is going to have at least a working knowledge of it just as we do now need to have at least elementary HTML, even if we're not experts in it.

Next: WMLScript

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