Big T
Jan 23rd 2009, 01:09 AM
I'm wondering if there is a WAP version of bibleforums? One that is good for my Blackberry.
bdh
Jan 23rd 2009, 05:17 AM
Don't think so. To be honest, I don't know if vBulletin has a WAP verion pages.
Big T
Jan 24th 2009, 02:11 AM
I'm not sure. I ask because crackberry.com has one and I would love to check this site from my BB when I'm out and about.
bdh
Jan 24th 2009, 04:39 AM
I found this http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2247 - not very informative, but it does show people are asking for it.
Ecumaniac
Mar 8th 2009, 03:30 PM
In my current job, I've actually had to develop some pages for a wide range of mobile devices—including BlackBerrys—and it is my professional opinion that WAP, in Europe and the US, at least, is on its way out.
Simply: given that mobile device capabilities are improving dramatically, WAP is fast becoming something of a relic, and an undesirable one at that. Most modern devices feature browsers which are comparable to their desktop counterparts, and thus perfectly capable of supporting HTML, CSS and JavaScript instead of lobotomised XML formats like WML or XHTML Basic/MP.
In the time it would take to produce a working implementation, and for that implementation to gain popularity on anything but a few niche mobile-oriented sites, it likely that most mobiles will already be leaving the walled garden of WAP for the promised land of the HTML web.
As a side note, my BlackBerry Bold (which I have through my workplace) doesn't have any problem displaying the full board, and I can always switch it to column mode to make it more readable. :)
