Terminology, Abbreviations, Definitions – Ericsson R380 User Manual

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WAP Wireless Markup Language Specification, Version 1.1

Version 16-JUN-1999

Wireless Application Protocol Forum, Ltd.

http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm

Terminology

Abbreviations

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

WAP

TM

Wireless Application Protocol

WBMP

WAP Bitmap

WML

Wireless Markup Language

Definitions

Bookmark

A named reference to a URL. Enables the user to keep track of

favorite pages and then return to them, easily, later on.

Card

A single WML unit of navigation and user interface. May contain

information to present to the user, instructions for gathering user

input, etc.

Card Contents

Subject data stored or generated at an origin server. The card

contents display text, images, buttons and other controls supported

by WML as a response to a user request. When a user performs an

action in the card contents, the WAP Browser responds according to

the WML specification.

Card Title

An attribute in the WML Card element specifying advisory

information about the card.

Card Title Sequence

A generic concept for visualizing the progress and history of a WML

application. The number of titles in the sequence is dependent on the

number of cards that have been browsed.

Current Card

The card whose contents is currently displayed in the browser.

Deck

A collection of WML cards.

Image

WBMP or GIF image contained in a Card.

newcontext

An attribute in the Card element indicating that the current browser

context should be re-initialized upon entry to this card.

WAP Application

A collection of WML cards, with the

newcontext

attribute set in the

entry card.

WAP service

A WML application residing on a web site.

WAP Services

The R380 WAP browser.

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