It’s sad that Russell Beatie is giving up on Mowser, a tools that strips away unnecessary data and making it mobile friendly. His blog is one that I started reading years ago, until he decided to spend more time pursuing other project, including Mowser.
I guess it is tough providing a free service on your own when there are already other players with deeper pockets doing it.
One is Skweezer which has been around for some time.
The newer and bigger player of course is Google, with an excessively simple screen (sans logo).
The best part about these tools is that after you have type in the URL and the mobile page is rendered, you just need to bookmark the result link and in the future you won’t have to enter the url again.
So which tool is better? I use this current blog for the test and here are the results (Skweezer followed by the Google).

Skweezer’s rendering of my blog seems to be the best. No embedded videos (of course) but the all images and links are there. The images (up to 444 pixels wide) were not resized. There is probably a limit before Skweezer will resize the image but I have not found it yet.
Google actually broke the page down into 3 sub pages (faster loading time and less scrolling on the mobile device). However, some of the images are missing. They are either bugs or probably images beyond a certain size will be truncated.
I’ll stick to Skweezer for the time being as missing data (images) are more of a concern for me.
Of course the best method for the mobile web is still to have a dedicated mobile site. For this Google seems to be ahead of the curve with many of their services available on the smaller mobile screen (with Orkut http://m.orkut.com missing).
I’ve been the mobile web more these days especially after getting a wifi-capable Nokia e61i.
Who says mobile web is dead? It’s just the beginning.