Wap

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created by Webster 1913
(thing) by sabre23t (3.4 y) (print)   (I like it!) Thu Mar 30 2000 at 3:03:25
Perhaps interestingly, WAP is also Malay word for vapour. The main movers of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) now are:
  • WAP Forum (www.wapforum.org)
  • W3C Mobile Access (www.w3.org/Mobile/)

after http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-WAP

(thing) by ncr100 (5.1 y) (print)   (I like it!) Mon Jan 24 2000 at 3:17:03
Also, the Wireless Application Protocol which your PDA uses to communicate with other resources via a (wireless) network.
(thing) by terse (7 y) (print)   (I like it!) Mon Aug 14 2000 at 21:09:34
A bletcherous protocol stack which basically reinvents TCP/IP from the ground up, under the guise of "wireless is different" (kind of ironic considering that TCP was invented because of the radio network on alohanet). As a result, you have people reimplementing all the mistakes that were made in the history of the internet, but in a tenth of the timespan.

This would be understandable if WAP (more precisely, WDP and WTP) actually did anything that UDP and TCP didn't do. As it is, it's a hodge-podge of ideas borrowed from the IETF and misimplemented by a closed committee.

Check out http://www.4k-associates.com/IEEE-L7-WAP-BIG.html for more information.

(idea) by blowdart (3.9 y) (print)   (I like it!) Sun Sep 17 2000 at 6:26:26

WML is being dropped by the WAP forum, and being replaced by XHTML for WAP 2.0, due to the greater bandwidth and always on capabilities for the 3G mobile networks.

WDP is also being replaced by TCP.

(definition) by Vulgar Tongue 1811 (3.2 y) (print) Tue May 03 2005 at 22:38:12
TO WAP
To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) 1 C! Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:20:09

Wap (?), v. t. & i. [See Whap.]

To beat; to whap.

[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Sir T. Malory.

 

© Webster 1913.

Wap, n.

A blow or beating; a whap.

[Prov. Eng.]

 

© Webster 1913.

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