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This reminds me of Opera Mini (not the same as Opera Mobile). It server-side rendered pages (on Opera servers), and converted them to a lightweight HTML page (

by Ayesh 6y ago

This reminds me of Opera Mini (not the same as Opera Mobile). It server-side rendered pages (on Opera servers), and converted them to a lightweight HTML page (with OPML extension IIRC), and then sent to the browser. I presume the server costs were high, because you run a giant proxy that did a lot of things for users, but for end users, it meant semi-interactice web pages that were 10-15kb in size.

Delk 6y ago
Opera Mini still exists. I guess it's not very commonly used nowadays in terms of market share, but on the other hand, individual web pages are much heavier and require more processing nowadays.
niutech 6y ago
You can run Opera Mini MIDP using MicroEmulator on Windows or install Opera Mobile Emulator: https://dev.opera.com/articles/opera-mobile-emulator/ https://dev.opera.com/articles/opera-mobile-emulator/