WAP was developed to allow a more interactive experience at a time when most mobile devices were unable to support full HTML browsing due to the technical limitations of the device and the required bandwidth to download the content-rich websites that we are now used to using on our phones.
So before this, WAP allowed a much more cut-down experience that was suited to the technology available then. WAP sites were mostly text-only or with very limited graphics due to the limited bandwidth and commonly consisted of a series of menus, or pages that could be navigated on the phone. A typical example would be a news site, where you selected what news you wanted to look at, and are then presented with a list of relevant stories which you could then select to view.
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| A much nicer example of WAP (shame it's about showbiz though...) |
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| Early 'CRAP' WAP... |
As technology and bandwidth got better, WAP sites improved, but nowadays it is largely redundant as most modern mobile devices typically support full HTML browsing and hence are able to render most websites as full and as rich as they were intended.
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