What's different between HTML and WML/WAP?

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Published on 2010-05-14T18:43:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 19:34 UTC
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I checked the source of a few WAP sites,

but doesn't find anything different from a normal HTML page.

Can you name a few detailed points?

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