| Webmaster’s Guide to the Wireless Internet is intended to give you, the Webmaster, the skills and knowledge that you will need to add wireless Internet capability to your existing Web site, to build new wireless applications, and to help you understand the issues, both global and domestic, that exist with deploying wireless Internet solutions. The primary geographical focus of this book is the United States, but Webmasters in other countries will certainly find the information useful.Webmaster’s Guide to the Wireless Internet is not a lengthy work on the wide variety of protocols that are used to deploy wireless technologies, nor does it focus unnecessarily on the minute details of emerging technologies that are volatile in nature and constantly changing. Rather, it focuses on hands-on examples that will allow you to adapt your existing skills in HTML and server-side scripting to deploy content and applications to a wireless audience using WML,WMLScript, and, in some cases, lean HTML.This book is intended to demystify the wireless landscape and provide you with answers on how to get your wireless Web site up and running quickly.
This book, while comprehensively covering the technologies that already exist on the wireless Internet (and the general principles behind them), does not attempt to address developing technologies that are not yet deployed.There has recently been much speculation and hype about so-called third generation, or 3G networks, which are “just around the corner.” In addition, handset manufacturers have promised many new developments in wireless technology, and, in particular, location-based services. These dreams, at the time of this writing, are not yet a reality.
About the Author Ryan Fife is a Technical Architect for Yospace where he is building their developer outreach program. Yospace has a strong market reputation for the development and deployment of high quality, working wireless data solutions that add value even at the earliest stages of this market. Ryan is working to maintain this prestigious reputation and expand the number of developers who use Yospace products to build quality applications. Ryan has been building wireless solutions for more than two years for clients that include large wireless companies such as Nokia and Ericsson. Prior to joining Yospace, Ryan co-founded AnywhereYouGo.com, a wireless portal for developers that covered WAP, J2ME, SMS, i-Mode, and PDA technologies. Ryan also has architected and built large e-commerce systems in Java as a consultant for Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
Dan Olsen is an independent Web technology consultant based in San Francisco, California. He specializes in helping non-profit organizations and small business people utilize Internet technology to make their internal processes more efficient and to communicate with their clients more easily. Dan formerly worked as an application developer and usability engineer for Informano Networks, a wireless Managed Services Provider located in Emeryville, California. In this capacity, he handled all aspects of client-side development for a wide variety of devices including WAP and wireless mobile phones, PDAs, and desktop web browsers. |
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