FosterIDEAZ is working towards development of websites aimed at enabling advanced services and applications on mobile wireless devices, such as cellular telephones. The goal of this technology is to enable sophisticated telephony and information services on hand-held wireless devices such as mobile telephones, pagers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other wireless terminals. Recognizing the value and utility of the World Wide Web architecture, our mentors(WAP Forum) have chosen to align certain components of its technology very tightly with the Internet and the WWW.
The WAP specifications extend and leverage mobile networking technologies (such as digital data networking standards) and Internet technologies (such as IP, HTTP, XML, URLs, scripting and other content formats).
The WAP Forum has drafted a global wireless protocol specification for all wireless networks and will contribute it to appropriate industry and standards bodies. WAP will enable manufacturers, network operators, content providers and application developers to offer compatible products and secure services on all devices and networks, resulting in greater economies of scale and universal access to information. WAP Forum membership is open to all industry participants.
The objectives of the WAP Forum are:
- To bring Internet content and advanced data services to digital cellular phones and other wireless terminals.
- To create a global wireless protocol specification that will work across different wireless network technologies.
- To enable the creation of content and applications that scale across a very wide range of wireless bearer networks and wireless device types.
- To embrace and extend existing standards and technology wherever appropriate.
Long Term Goals
- Work toward a unified information space.
- Work toward common standards and technologies.
- Enable the delivery of sophisticated information and services to mobile wireless terminals.
We at FosterIDEAZ are adapting our technology to include the W3C's recently decisions to initiate an activity to create a new generation of HTML. This will be based on XML, and is likely to include features that makes it more efficient for mobile use.
Meanwhile, other XML applications such as the Wireless Markup Language, WML, and the Synchronised Multimedia, SMIL, are the present tools employed by us.
XML is also continuing to develop into a full-featured system for information structuring. We are already using it while designing such applications.
Vector Graphics
The W3C has created a Working Group, which will be chartered to produce a specification for a Scalable Vector Graphics format, written as a modular XML tagset and usable as an XML namespace, which can be widely implemented in browsers and authoring tools and which is suitable for widespread adoption by the content authoring community as a replacement for many current uses of raster graphics. For simple cases such as trivial inline graphics, it should be possible to hand author the SVG format, and it should be possible to cut and paste SVG graphical objects between documents and preserve their appearance, linking behavior and style.
This will mean that the graphics in Web documents will be smaller, faster, more interactive, and be displayable on a wider range of device resolutions from small mobile devices through office computer monitors to high resolution printers.
We have already researched a lot on these paradigm technological shifts. SVG is less data intensive and more programming intensive which leads to a better programming control in the output and lesser file sizes. Presently not all browsers support it, so users require to download a plug in to expereince it.
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