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Heck, go back to using WML. It would be interesting to build that browser again, the cards would work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language

• miohtama 6y ago
  I worked with some of very first mobile web sites. It was WML and Nokia 7110. While it seems rosy now, it was not that pleasant to work with. Pushing out any meaningful user interaction was painful. It was similar to remote control menus on TVs. Plus it did not help that the entire device rebooted on a markup parsing errors and such bugs.
  • protomyth 6y ago
    How much of the problem was the lack of power in the platform versus the actual design of WML. I remember it worked ok, but I was using a better platform at the time. Then again, I really didn't go much farther than working through the ORA book. I suppose, strictly, it did have WMLscript to go with it so might not be suitable for the original author.
    • miohtama 6y ago
      As far as I remember WML was processed to a binary payload by an operator gateway and the phone never tried to interpret XML itself Thus, a special operator support was required with GPRS connection. In 2000 they also had WAP-over-SMS. That was slow. And expensive. One SMS could carry 140 bytes.
      • protomyth 6y ago
        Yeah, I remember the binary convert thing, but the WML itself wasn't so bad.