Jon Galloway posted an
article describing a way to view low bandwidth optimized MSDN pages by modifying the URL.
Try it out...
Also check Jon's site for a
bookmarklet he wrote which you can use to switch this functionality on or off at any time.
This option will be very useful when my laptop's cellular connection has a bad signal (like when on the train). I imagine this will also be helpful to all those smart phone browsers out there. Any smart phone owners care to try it out?
Check out his comments section. The Product Unit Manager for MSDN responded with some insight into what they're doing. It sounds like they might change the way the "loband" option is specified. I was wondering why they didn't just make it a query string item, but I'll bet they've already got some serious url rewriting going on.