A wireless communications device with a markup language based man-machine
interface provides a user interface for telecommunications functionality,
including dialing telephone numbers, answering telephone calls, creating
messages, sending messages, receiving messages, establishing
configuration settings defined in markup language such as HTML, and
accessed through a browser program executed by the wireless communication
device. This feature enables direct access to Internet and World Wide Web
content, such as Web pages, to be directly integrated with
telecommunication functions of the device, and allows Web content to be
seamlessly integrated with other data types, since all data presented to
the user via the user interface is presented via markup language-based
pages. The browser processes an extended form of HTML that provides new
tags and attributes that enhance the navigational, logical, and display
capabilities of conventional HTML, and particularly adapt HTML to be
displayed and used on wireless communication devices with small screen
displays.