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A technique is disclosed for generating formatted information for display on a computing device. The computing device may be configured to include at least one interface for communicating with a server system. A request is sent from the computing device to the server system. According to one embodiment, the request may correspond to an HTTP request for information relating to a specific HTML page or web page. A response is then received from the server system. According to one embodiment, the response includes response information comprising embedded instructions and data. The embedded instructions may include instructions for using the data to generate formatted markup information for display on the computing device. The embedded instructions are then executed on the data to thereby generate formatted markup information for display on the computing device. According to a specific embodiment, the formatted markup information corresponds to HTML data to be rendered for display on the computing device.