Wapple annouces web applications with wapple architect
Wapple has announced Wapple Architect
What is it?
It enables developers to mobilize PC applications and create new mobile services.
From the press release:
“Architect is a ground breaking technology that integrates at the very heart of an existing web application, unlike transcoding systems,” explains Rich Holdsworth, CTO at Wapple.
“There is growing demand for good quality mobile applications and content, but developers have been faced with the impossible task of supporting more than 50,000 device and software variants,” says Holdsworth. “The result is that many have either used crude transcoding to deliver very basic content or spent weeks developing different sites for different phones. With Wapple Architect, developers simply build it once and let Wapple’s delivery engine do the rest.”
What we think?
Hmmm. I like Wapple as its a mobile site creation company and I use it as well. But I am fighting to find what is new about this service. I get that it uses XML – but it sounds as though too much effort is going into this bit.
WAPL works in the same way as HTML/XHTML for websites and applications. Once WAPL files have been added, Wapple’s web services will detect if a mobile device is being used to access the site and output WAPL as the view file.
I haven’t spoken to Wapple about MetaTXTyet –but I think that I should – I get that Wapple’s WAPL will be able to detect a mobile and then render the best content but wouldn’t a user agent (metaTXT) do this faster.
Bena pencil’s note – call to Rich Holdsworth necessary to explain our new standard for the mobile web – metaTXT and to find out more about Wapple Architect. Two hats required – first visibility mobile followed by GoMo News.
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