WAP Colored Images

Question

I'm beginning with WML development, but I hate that the only option that we have for images are the WBMP format, that is only grayscale, then I want to know if there is any way to have colored images using WAP 1.x(not the new 2.x versions of it).

Answer 1

Standard colour image formats such as BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF and animated GIF were supported in the Openwave browsers (certainly Openwave Mobile Browser v6), which were shipped on a huge number of WAP mobile phones. I think it a reasonable assumption that other WAP browsers have similar support.

Beware that some browsers may not support certain advanced features of these formats e.g. progressive display/download in GIF, PNG and JPEG.

So you should be able to do e.g.:

<img alt="text" src="url" />

where the URL specifies a BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF etc.

The Openwave browsers also allowed img elements within do and option elements as a non-standard extension to WML.