Evolution of mobile web standards

C-HTML (for "Compact HTML") is a subset of the HTML markup language that works on DoCoMo's i-mode mobile phones used in Japan. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure A markup language is an Artificial language using a set of annotations to text that give instructions regarding the structure of text or how it is to be displayed is the predominant Mobile phone operator in Japan The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase " do co mmunications over the mo bile network NTT DoCoMo 's i-mode is a Wireless internet service popular in Japan. C-HTML also adds several additional features not found in standard HTML, notably the accesskeys, phone number shortcuts for links, and emoji pictorial characters as locally extended Shift-JIS, all concepts borrowed halfway from HDML/WML. is the Japanese name for the picture characters or Emoticons used in Japanese wireless messages and webpages The Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML is a Markup language intended for display on Handheld computers Information appliances Smartphones

C-HTML was developed by ACCESS and major Japanese handset manufacturers in 1998 and is an alternative to WML and XHTML Basic. ( founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 in Tokyo Japan by Arakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa is a company providing a variety of software for connected and mobile devices such Wireless Markup Language, based on XML, is a Markup language intended for devices that implement the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP specification It is considered superior to WML by some people as it is compatible with HTML, thus allowing C-HTML websites to be viewed using standard web browsers and created using standard web tools, with a minimum of post-processing and validation. A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text images videos music games and other information typically located on a

In addition, C-HTML does not have the "card" structure of WML, thought by some to be clumsy.

XHTML Basic is expected to replace C-HTML in the near future as more compliant user agents are developed. A user agent is the client application used with a particular Network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World (XHTML is now supported by au/KDDI's EZ wireless data services in Japan and many other WAP operators around the world. The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a au (エーユー pronounced Ēyū), or au by KDDI, is a Mobile phone brand in Japan marketed by KDDI Corporation in the main islands ( is a Japanese Telecommunications operator formed in October 2000 through the merger of DDI Corp WAP is an open international Standard for Application layer network communications in a Wireless communication environment )

See also

• Microbrowser
• Information appliance
• List of document markup languages
• Comparison of document markup languages

External links

• Compact HTML for Small Information Appliances — W3C NOTE 09-Feb-1998