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People have become accustomed to rich, interactive Internet experiences on their computers, an experience that often cannot be had with a mobile Web browser. The reason for this (and it is deceptively simple): The underlying technology of the Internet browsers on your computer and on your phone differs significantly. Because of this difference, less than 1 percent of Web sites that now exist can be viewed properly, if at all, on a mobile phone (unless the user has an iPhone, BlackBerry, or a full Internet-like browser on their smartphone or PDA). Most Internet Web sites aren’t composed in languages that a mobile Web browser can understand. The language of the computer browser Web sites designed to be viewed by computers are developed in a number of different programming languages, such as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), Flash, XML, Ajax, or PhP. Your computer Internet browser is designed so that it can read and understand the instructions written in these languages and a vast number of other ones. Moreover, your computer Internet browser can easily learn new languages. If it doesn’t understand a language in a Web site, the developer of the site can instruct the computer Internet browser to download an engine or a translator that helps the computer Internet browser understand how to follow the instructions of the new language; for example, your computer Internet browser may be instructed to download a Flash player or video player so that you can play Flash games or see videos. The language of the mobile browser Similar to your computer Internet browser, mobile browsers have their own language. One of the first languages developed for mobile browsers was Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), a derivative of HTML. WAP 1.0, released in the late 1990s, was designed to address all limitations of the mobile phone and bandwidth constrained mobile networks. A new and improved version of WAP, WAP 2.0, offers a richer mobile Web experience. In addition to WAP, other mobile browser languages have been developed, such as XHTML (or XML Hypertext Markup Language), CHTML (compact Hypertext Markup Language), and KHTML (Konqueror Hypertext Markup Language). Each of these different mobile browser languages has been developed to improve your experience when viewing the Web on your mobile phone, but they’re all mobile-device and wireless carrier dependent and therefore don’t work on all phones or networks.
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