The Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) is a
markup language
Markup language refers to a text-encoding system consisting of a set of symbols inserted in a text document to control its structure, formatting, or the relationship between its parts. Markup is often used to control the display of the document ...
intended for display on
handheld computers,
information appliances,
smartphones, etc.. It is similar to
HTML, but for
wireless and handheld devices with small displays, like
PDA
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,
mobile phones and so on.
It was originally developed in about 1996 by
Unwired Planet,
the company that became Phone.com and then
Openwave. HDML was submitted to W3C for standardization, but was not turned into a standard. Instead it became an important influence on the development and standardization of
WML, which then replaced HDML in practice. Unlike WML, HDML has no support for scripts.
See also
*
Wireless Application Protocol
*
List of document markup languages
*
Comparison of document markup languages
References
Markup languages
Computer-related introductions in 1996
Mobile web
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