How is WAP technology similar to the Internet?
The WAP stack has many similarities to the Internet set of technologies. For instance, the Wireless Markup Language used to create WAP pages is very similar to HTML used to create WWW pages. Similarly, the WMLScript is based on JavaScript. It should be noted that both WML and WMLScript are adapted and optimised for a wireless environment (e.g. compression to save bandwidth). The same story goes for the lower parts of the stack (e.g. WSP and WTP). They are in general similar to the Internet protocols (e.g. HTTP) but with optimisation for use in a wireless environment.
