About the wireless Web

Web sites designed for wireless viewing are made with markup languages designed for the wireless internet: CHTML, WML, and XHTML-Basic. CHTML (compact hypertext markup language) is a special subset of the HTML 4.0 specification, commonly known by the NTT DoCoMo trademark i-mode. Wireless markup language (WML) is a tag-based standard based on XML. XHTML-Basic is the XHTML (extensible hypertext markup language) specification for wireless, and alternative devices.

Sites authored with these languages are in increasing use throughout the world. If your mobile telephone service provider offers wireless browsing, you can visit Web sites created in these languages.

Developing successful a wireless Web site requires working within special constraints. Many users pay additional fees for Web browsing on their mobile telephones and handheld computers. You need to design your site so that text, images and navigation are optimized for small screens and file size is optimized for minimal download times.