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Nokia S60 Platform SDK

Jan-28-2008 By miketeo

This is for my personal notes as it takes a while to search through that labyrinth of information on the Nokia web site. The Nokia Symbian SDKs are at this URL.

WML Browser for FireFox

Nov-10-2007 By miketeo

Firefox natively does not support and render WML. wmlbrowse is intended to try and implement as much of WML (Wireless Markup Language) as possible in Mozilla/Firefox as an extension module.

I have been coding a bit of WML for a WAP site recently. All seem to look good until some Nokia phones like 6100i and E-series fail to display certain WML pages. These pages work on 6230 and my Sony-Ericsson K750i. It isn’t until I run the WAP site through WAP Proof that I manage to discover the problem. The <img> tags on these problematic WML pages fail to include the alt attribute. Apparently, the WAP browsers on these phones need to see this attribute in the <img> tags, or else it will raise the "File Format Not Supported" error.