METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ACCESS OVER A LOW BANDWIDTH LINK

A computer system provides content to a client device such as a handheld wireless telephone by identifying the client device as a limited-display client device, receiving a request from the client device for hypertext content (e.g. content in HTML form), and generating a reduced-size version of the requested hypertext content. Based on the identification of the client device as a limited-display client device and in response to the request, the reduced-size version of the hypertext content is returned to the client device. The reduced-size version of the hypertext content may be generated by removing information from the hypertext content which is not relevant to the display of the client device, and the reduced-size version of the hypertext content may include page in a text-based hypertext markup language such as HTML. A layout conversion may be used from a first hypertext layout to a second hypertext layout of the reduced hypertext content, which may be more directly usable by a handheld wireless telephone than is the first hypertext layout.