Introduction

If you have developed a standard Web application, the learning curve for developing Web clipping applications is short. The main difference between developing Web clipping applications and standard Web applications is that some parts of your site get stored locally on the device, whereas other parts of it stay on the Web server to be requested later. By installing the nonchanging parts of the application on the device, the wireless network transfer time is significantly reduced. By comparison, standard Web applications generally retrieve both static and dynamic components via the wired network.

To build a Web clipping application (WCA), Palm, Inc. has provided a utility called the Web Clipping Application Builder (WCA Builder). The WCA Builder parses and compresses static Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and graphics into a format readable by Clipper, Palm Inc. s limited Web browser.

This chapter shows you how to use the WCA Builder by building a Hello, World! example. In addition, we compare the differences between the 1.0 and 1.5 Versions of this utility. Finally, we step through the construction of a Web clipping application for the product list of the fictional company Unwired Widgets.

Writing Simple Web Pages

An introduction to a programming language isn t complete without the traditional Hello, World! example. The following is an HTML implementation of Hello, World! , which is on the CD as the hello world build 1 example.

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