Editing Wireless Markup Language (section)

==WML history==
[[Image:Mobile Web Standards Evolution Vector.svg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|Evolution of mobile web standards]]
Building on Openwave's [[Handheld Device Markup Language|HDML]], Nokia's "Tagged Text Markup Language" (TTML) and Ericsson's proprietary markup language for mobile content, the [[WAP Forum]] created the WML 1.1 standard in 1998.<ref>[http://inspiredbloggers.blogspot.com/2004/12/brief-history-of-wap_110252445307049372.html The HCI blog: A brief History of WAP]</ref> WML 2.0 was specified in 2001,<ref>WAP Forum: [http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml20.dtd "Wireless Markup Language (WML) 2.0 Document Type Definition"]</ref> but has not been widely adopted. It was an attempt at bridging WML and [[XHTML Basic]] before the [[WAP 2.0]] spec was finalized.<ref>Openwave Developer Network: [http://developer.openwave.com/dvl/support/documentation/guides_and_references/xhtml-mp_style_guide/chapter1.htm "One quick note about WML 2.0"]</ref> In the end, [[XHTML Mobile Profile]] became the markup language used in WAP 2.0. The newest WML version in active use is 1.3.

The first company to launch a public WML site was Dutch [[mobile phone]] network operator [[Telfort]] in October 1999 and the first company in the world to launch the [[Nokia 7110]]. The [[Telfort]] WML site was created and developed as side project to test the device's capabilities by a billing engineer called Christopher Bee and National Deployment Manager, Euan McLeod. The WML site consists of four pages in both Dutch and English that contained many grammatical errors in Dutch as the two developers were unaware the WML was configured on the [[Nokia 7110]] as the home page and neither were native Dutch speakers.