6. A server communicatively coupled to an IP network that transfers markup language based content that represents a web page to a client computer within the network, the server comprising: a dispatcher that: interfaces to a plurality of content sources and receive markup language files from one or more of the content sources, in response to requests from one or more browser applications, wherein each browser application is installed in a client device; identifies the format of each particular markup language file received and initiates a unique markup language object module to process each particular markup language file; provides at least a portion of a received particular markup language file to an initiated markup language object module; receives modified markup language files from the markup language object modules; and provides the modified markup language file toward a requesting client device; and one or more markup language object modules, wherein each: receives at least a portion of a particular markup language file from the dispatcher; parses the received portion of a particular markup language file; identifies a browser link within the at least a portion of the received markup language file; traverses the browser link to obtain the corresponding object; replaces the browser link with the corresponding object to modify the at least a portion of the markup language file; and provides the modified portion of the markup language file to the dispatcher module; wherein the server is installed in an intermediate node between the content source and the requesting client; wherein the modified markup language content that is sent toward the browser application has a reduced number of browser links then the received markup language content; wherein the modification is transparent to the browser application at the client computer and wherein the rendering of the modified markup language content by the browser is accomplished in less time than what would be required to render the received markup language files due at least in part to a reduced number of browser links that must be traversed.
6. A server communicatively coupled to an IP network that transfers markup language based content that represents a web page to a client computer within the network, the server comprising: a dispatcher that: interfaces to a plurality of content sources and receive markup language files from one or more of the content sources, in response to requests from one or more browser applications, wherein each browser application is installed in a client device; identifies the format of each particular markup language file received and initiates a unique markup language object module to process each particular markup language file; provides at least a portion of a received particular markup language file to an initiated markup language object module; receives modified markup language files from the markup language object modules; and provides the modified markup language file toward a requesting client device; and one or more markup language object modules, wherein each: receives at least a portion of a particular markup language file from the dispatcher; parses the received portion of a particular markup language file; identifies a browser link within the at least a portion of the received markup language file; traverses the browser link to obtain the corresponding object; replaces the browser link with the corresponding object to modify the at least a portion of the markup language file; and provides the modified portion of the markup language file to the dispatcher module; wherein the server is installed in an intermediate node between the content source and the requesting client; wherein the modified markup language content that is sent toward the browser application has a reduced number of browser links then the received markup language content; wherein the modification is transparent to the browser application at the client computer and wherein the rendering of the modified markup language content by the browser is accomplished in less time than what would be required to render the received markup language files due at least in part to a reduced number of browser links that must be traversed. 7. The server of claim 6 , wherein the markup language file format is selected from the group of markup language file formats consisting of HTML, XML, WML, SGML, and HDML.