What Is WML?

Wireless Markup Language (WML) is a markup language used for describing the structure of documents to be delivered to wireless devices. WML is to wireless browsers as HTML is to a browser on a desktop computer. WML was created to address the display, bandwidth, and memory limitations of mobile and wireless devices, such as cellular phones and wireless handheld computers. Because it was designed to run on a variety of devices, WML assumes very little about the device running the application and provides much less control over output formats than you might be used to with HTML.

WML's Origins

In the early 1990s, Unwired Planet created HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) to serve as the development standard for wireless applications. ...

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