WAP-Wireless Application Protocol

WAP-Wireless Application Protocol is Mostly used for accessing the mobile web from a Mobile phone or from a PDA. which are used massively by everyone in this modern age from business men to children have mobile phones which have the capability to connect to the internet.

WAP supports most wireless networks. These include CDPD, CDMA, GSM, PDC, PHS, TDMA, FLEX, ReFLEX, iDEN, TETRA, DECT, DataTAC, and Mobitex. WAPs that use displays access the internet and run what are called microbrowsers--browsers with small file sizes that can accommodate the low memory constraints of handheld devices and the low-bandwidth constraints of a wireless-handheld network.

Although WAP supports HTML and XML, the WML language (an XML application) is specifically devised for small screens and one-hand navigation without a keyboard. WML is scalable from two-line text displays up through graphic screens found on items such as smart phones and communicators.