the art will realize that browsers on some wireless devices such as pagers and pdas may not be capable of displaying html documents in that case a tag language compatible with the particular browser must be used the reformatted web page is then written to a file and stored in ram 44 or on the hard drive 48 step 118 after that the file is compressed encrypted and transmitted over the wireless communications network 14 for delivery to the wireless device 12 by the server process step 120 in data packets because the type of wireless network to which the wireless device is connected is known the data packets are paced by the server process at a rate best suited for transmission over the particular type of network referring to fig7 once the file is received by the wireless device 12 the client process 32 first decrypts step 122 and then decompresses step 124 the file the client process 32 then reads the tags of decompressed decrypted data interprets their contents and displays the parsed web page to the user in the browser 30 window on the display 36 step 126 the present invention has numerous advantages over the prior art because the web page transmitted to the wireless device is greatly simplified from its original form the size of the web page is greatly reduced resulting in a reduced transmission time over the wireless communications network additionally because the web page transmitted to the wireless device does not have any non displayable elements the transfer is extremely efficient since there is no transmission of superfluous data additionally because the type.