2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the client device is coupled to the computer system by a communications link having lower data bandwidth than communications links in a network connecting the computer system to other content-serving computers.
1. A method by which a computer system provides hypertext content to a client device, comprising: identifying the client device as a limited-display client device; receiving a request from the client device for hypertext content; generating a reduced-size version of the hypertext content requested by the client device; and based on the identification of the client device as a limited-display client device and in response to the request, returning the reduced-size version of the hypertext content to the client device, wherein generating the reduced-size version of the hypertext content includes performing a layout conversion from a first hypertext layout of the hypertext content to a second hypertext layout of the reduced hypertext content, the layout conversion removing information from the hypertext content which is not relevant to the display of the client device; wherein the client device is a handheld wireless telephone, and wherein the hypertext content includes telephone numbers and the second hypertext layout contains the telephone numbers formatted as icons which may be user-activated for dialing.