# WAP Interface

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wap-interface/66584>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 27, 2006, 11:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wap-interface/66584 "2006-08-27T11:03:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/n1c)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 11:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wap-interface/66584/1 "2006-08-27T11:03:38Z")

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Anyone have any experience with or comments on developing a WAP  
interface for a Rails app?

I’m completely new to WAP and need to quote on building a WAP version of  
an existing web interface.

Any feedback, pointers or links appreciated!

Thanks  
Nick

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**Author:** ![n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/n1c)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wap-interface/66584/2 "2006-08-27T13:06:17Z")

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I am very interested in this as well, not just wap but mobile versions  
in general (ala Backpack Mobile). If anyone has any knowledge or  
resources to share on this it would be great, especially using all the  
RJS stuff if that is even possible (perhaps UJS would help some?).

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**Author:** ![n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/n1c)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wap-interface/66584/3 "2006-08-27T13:36:20Z")

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On 27 Aug 2006, at 10:03, Nick C. wrote:

> Anyone have any experience with or comments on developing a WAP  
> interface for a Rails app?
> 
> I’m completely new to WAP and need to quote on building a WAP  
> version of  
> an existing web interface.

WAP is yet another XML-like, SGML derived subset - similar to HTML in  
that sense.

You can use standard xml tools for Rails (rxml), or you could try to  
use standard rhtml. If you decide to use rhtml, you might want to  
develop your own helpers to create fully WAP compliant output; this  
isn’t hard to do.

Paul

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**Author:** ![n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/n1c)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wap-interface/66584/4 "2006-08-28T06:17:18Z")

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unknown wrote:

> This came up a month or two ago, you could try searching the archives.

A search for WAP or WML turns up nothing - what was the original  
discussion about?

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**Author:** ![n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/n1c)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wap-interface/66584/5 "2006-08-28T06:45:58Z")

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Here in the wiki is some notes

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToProvideAlternateViewsForMobileD](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToProvideAlternateViewsForMobileD)  
evices

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**Author:** ![n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@n1c](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/n1c)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wap-interface/66584/6 "2006-08-28T00:35:23Z")

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This came up a month or two ago, you could try searching the archives.