Nigel Wade

wML 1.1 is my chosen standard and ColdFusion 4.5.1 is my preferred development platform. I'm sure there are pros and cons for other versions and standard figures. Here I'll discuss my reasons for using WML and ColdFusion. WML 1.1 I chose this standard because I don't intend to serve up advanced pages; the advancement of this application is server-side, not client-side. From the start the application must be able to work on all phones, old or new. For this reason I've never coded in WML stylesheets, used a bold (notice the closing tag), or any other display-modifying tags anywhere in my application code. It does add to the appearance, but if one user's phone doesn't support it, what's the point? I have no way of knowing my user base or their phones' browsers and/or version numbers. You can code if statements based on browser types into templates, then redirect to wher... (more)