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		eli on Sept 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, ... Stripping down webpages for mobile is an old idea -- google used to do it by default when you clicked a link from the search page on your phone.

pbhjpbhj on Sept 12, 2014 | [–]

Opera and Opera Mobile had (have?) it as an option too. It was pretty effective and included resizing and re-encoding/compressing JPEGs IIRC.

bluedino on Sept 12, 2014 | [–]

BlackBerry based a big part of their business on doing so.

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