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It’s too bad that WML from WAP is not used anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Langua
by QuantumNomad_ 10mo ago
It’s too bad that WML from WAP is not used anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol
WML pages had mostly text and hyperlinks from what I remember and even though it supported images too I think most such basic pages would be readable even if you turned image loading off.
- duggan 10mo agoI spent so much time tuning the WAP site for the forum I worked for back in 2008. I had some sort of Nokia running on whatever 2kbps networking was going then, and would shave absolutely anything I could to make the forums load slightly faster.
- IanCal 10mo agoWe could use markdown.
- ahazred8ta 10mo agoIt's a crying shame that a browser can't fetch a plain vanilla goodstuff.md file and display it natively.