How to create online forms in mobile devices
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Sample Uses
- Electoral registration
- Vaccination
- Surveys
- Public services
What is Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)?
WAP is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication. Its principal application is to enable access to the Internet from a mobile phone or PDA. A WAP browser is to provide all of the basic services of a computer based web browser but simplified to operate within the restrictions of a mobile phone. WAP is now the protocol used for the majority of the world's mobile internet sites, known as WAP sites. The Japanese i-mode system is currently the only other major competing wireless data protocol. Mobile internet sites, or WAP sites, are websites written in, or dynamically converted to WML (Wireless Markup Language) and accessed via the WAP browser. Before the introduction of WAP, service providers had extremely limited opportunities to offer interactive data services. Interactive data applications are required to support now commonplace activities such as:
- email by mobile phone
- tracking of stock market prices
- sports results
- news headlines
- forms with various information fields
What is Wireless Markup Language (WML)?
WML is the markup language defined in the WAP specification. The role of WML in mobile Internet applications is the same as that of HTML in web applications. WAP sites are written in WML; while web sites are written in HTML.WML is very similar to HTML. Both of them use tags and are written in plain text format. Some tags in WML are directly borrowed from HTML. If you have experience in using the HTML markup language, you should be able to learn WML quickly.
How to submit form data to the server in WML
To create forms in WML tutorial the programmer needs to use input fields and selection lists in order to create forms and obtain data from a user. The easiest way to create a WML file to upload to a mobile device is to install and use WML compilation software in a desktop computer. The forms can be generated in accordance with detailed needs and one can simulate running files on the desktop before uploading.
After the task is concluded, the forms can be upload to devices or can be located in central servers and accessed each time someone on the field needs to. Data inserted in each device is submitted to a central server passing through a GPRS/UMTS network received, processed, and recorded in a central database for record keeping.
