HDML

(Handheld Device Markup Language) A specialized version of HTML designed to enable wireless pagers, cellphones and other handheld devices to obtain information from Web pages. HDML was developed by Phone.com (now Openwave Systems) before the WAP specification was standardized. It is a subset of WAP with some features that were not included in WAP. AT&T Wireless launched the first HDML-based service in 1996. See WAP.

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This is because before there was WML (actually, even before there was WAP), there was HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language), which was developed by Unwired Planet and is closer to standard HMTL than WML.

WAP Flap Zaps Spec Credibility

Another similar language (which is relatively less compliant to the W3C HTML recommendation) is the Hand-held Device Markup Language (HDML) [HDML 1997].

Client-Server Computing in Mobile Environments

The three mobile phone companies agreed that Unwired Planet's Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) and its accompanying transport protocol (HDTP) would be an appropriate basis for such a standard.

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The MobileAccess has a 12-character, four-row display that lets one "browse," or scroll, through screens of information that are HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) enabled.

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Micro-browser A miniature browser that can only traditionally view sites in HDML. It uses its own gateway, or software on the server to provide access to the wireless Web.

Glossary

XTNDConnect View is a software solution designed to give wireless devices, including RIM wireless handhelds, WAP and HDML mobile phones, and Palm VII devices-secure, real-time, two-way access to groupware information.

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quServe has the capability of interfacing with WAP, HDML, HTML, SMS, and XML, as well as emerging protocols.

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