Why to use HAWHAW?
HAWHAW satands for HTML And WML Hybrid Adapted Webserver.
The current situation out there is that many WAP applications are highly incompatible and not able to interwork with different mobile devices. This is mainly caused by strong differing browser implementations and network configurations. Starting to program WML means to painfully learn about all those pitfalls one by one and day by day.
With HAWHAW, the programmer can rely on the accumulated experience of many running mobile applications. The compatibility of a direct WML-coded application is highly dependent from the programmer's personal knowledge. The mark-up output of a HAWHAW-based application contains the knowledge of many running HAWHAW applications out there. This does not mean, that the HAWHAW-created output is totally perfect under all situations. But it will automatically become better and better because each feedback from a single application can result in an improvement of the underlying hawhaw.inc library.
Existing HAWHAW sites will therefore benefit from future HAWHAW evolution steps. Without any additional development effort you can upgrade your running applications. Users of the HAWHAW PHP class library simply download a higher version of the HAWHAW class lib. HAWHAW XML users are upgraded automatically in the very moment, when the involved HAWHAW proxy upgrades to an higher version. This way your site or application is best prepared for future requirements.
HAWHAW was developed according to the Wireless Application Protocol Wireless Markup Language Specification Version 1.1 and according to the HDML Language Reference V3.0. It additionally supports the Openwave GUI extensions for WML 1.3. If HAWHAW's browser detection recognizes that the requesting device supports the proprietary Openwave WML extensions, special WML output will be submitted. There is no extra effort required to support GUI elements like select boxes, radio buttons or submit buttons. WAP devices which understand WML 1.1 only, will receive the standardized WML tags instead. So there's no need for the application programmer to deal with different code for various browsers.
The current situation out there is that many WAP applications are highly incompatible and not able to interwork with different mobile devices. This is mainly caused by strong differing browser implementations and network configurations. Starting to program WML means to painfully learn about all those pitfalls one by one and day by day.
With HAWHAW, the programmer can rely on the accumulated experience of many running mobile applications. The compatibility of a direct WML-coded application is highly dependent from the programmer's personal knowledge. The mark-up output of a HAWHAW-based application contains the knowledge of many running HAWHAW applications out there. This does not mean, that the HAWHAW-created output is totally perfect under all situations. But it will automatically become better and better because each feedback from a single application can result in an improvement of the underlying hawhaw.inc library.
Existing HAWHAW sites will therefore benefit from future HAWHAW evolution steps. Without any additional development effort you can upgrade your running applications. Users of the HAWHAW PHP class library simply download a higher version of the HAWHAW class lib. HAWHAW XML users are upgraded automatically in the very moment, when the involved HAWHAW proxy upgrades to an higher version. This way your site or application is best prepared for future requirements.
HAWHAW was developed according to the Wireless Application Protocol Wireless Markup Language Specification Version 1.1 and according to the HDML Language Reference V3.0. It additionally supports the Openwave GUI extensions for WML 1.3. If HAWHAW's browser detection recognizes that the requesting device supports the proprietary Openwave WML extensions, special WML output will be submitted. There is no extra effort required to support GUI elements like select boxes, radio buttons or submit buttons. WAP devices which understand WML 1.1 only, will receive the standardized WML tags instead. So there's no need for the application programmer to deal with different code for various browsers.
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