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Old 12-14-2004, 01:11 PM   #2
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More of the same...

Its just taking the site remotely, stripping tables, and adding internal redirects to keep pumping all urls clicked and followed, through their table-stripping engine. It isn't "optimized" for handhelds at all. Images aren't quantized, resized, and content isn't prepared with handheld readers in mind at all.

This is probably 15 lines of Perl, tops, to make this happen. It could (and should) be extended to clean up the HTML and remove the unnecessary attributes and tags that are not required for mobile reading on a cell or PDA.

Its an interesting idea though, but its already been done, several years ago by quite a few "mobile portal" sites.
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