I read a post where someone asked for a mobile edition of weather wathcer; and then I had an idea, why not to write a WAP site?
Actually I never had worked with wml, but many friends told me that is very similar to xml and more simple.
My idea is to have a simple card with links to the same pages on w.w., of curse in wml format, endeed it will be compatible with all the GSM mobiles not only with the Simbyan, PamlOS and others systems.
Example: Typing "http: //wml.weatherwatcher.com"
The first card asking for the city code.. [code] [b]Welcome to the Weather Watcher WAP Edition! ? Copyright 2005 Mike Singer -------------------------- Please type your city code here:[/b] //HERE a input box [b]*Your code must be in the next format: MXSA0080 [u]OK[/u][/b][/code]
then the server will process the request and shows the links to the cards: [code] [b]Click on the links to view the forecast
Current Conditions
Hourly Forecast
Daily Forecast
Detailed Forecast</font id=“blue”>
Home Back</font id=“blue”>[/b]
//obviously the refresh option wont be necessary</font id=“green”>[/code]
Wath else??.... uummmmm... o yeah!!! the hardest: if the user wishes to download a map. I mean...
[code]
[b]Click on the links
to view the forecast
Current Conditions
Hourly Forecast
Daily Forecast
Detailed Forecast</font id=“blue”>
Maps</font id=“blue”>
Home Back</font id=“blue”>[/b][/code]
by clicking on Maps:
[code]
//At this point I was thinking about the compatibility, only color screens [:p].
And other factor could be the rent plan (I have a pre-paid plan
- 9600 data speed, $1.50 MXP ~ $0.15 USD per minute - and the
download time takes near to 30 sec.), so a warning could be displayed
before the country selector:</font id=“green”>
[b]BEFORE CONTINUING.
*Your cell phone must have
a color screen.
*Also you must take into
account the weight of the
images, consequently the
increase in your phone bill.
OK Back</font id=“blue”>[/code][/b]
by clicking OK
[code]Choose your country
or region://here the list that appears in the map menu,
thats the reason because I said that is a hard work.
I’m going to use Mexico in the exmple.</font id=“green”>.
.
[b]Mexico
.
.</font id=“blue”>
Home Back</font id=“blue”>[/b][/code]
by clicking on Mexico:
[code]
[b]Satellite
Satellite (Central)</font id=“blue”>
Home Back</font id=“blue”>[/code][/b]
then by clicking on Satellite the next link will download the image:
http://image.weather.com/images/sat/mexsat_440x297.jpg
http://image.weather.com/images/sat/mexsat_440x297.jpg
Does anybody know WML?
That’s all, I guess…
P.S.
The EyeCandy skin also works with W.W. 5.6 beta 10
http://www.singerscreations.com/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=809&whichpage=2