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Microsoft unveils: Deepfish - Browsing for Windows Mobile phones
Microsoft Live Labs announced the limited public availability of Deepfish, a preview of a technology that can be used to improve mobile browsing. In its current form, Deepfish provides users of mobile phones or other small screen devices a full ‘as designed’ view of websites on their mobile device. Because the site looks as you would expect it to on your desktop, pages are easier to navigate than the typical experience with mobile browsers today. The interface lets people zoom in and out on the parts of a web page that interest them in an intuitive way, making it easy to use these large screen formatted pages on a mobile device. As you likely know, it can typically take up to a minute or more for a webpage to render on a mobile device--however, Deepfish’s unique architecture retrieves the information needed for a particular view, significantly reducing that time to load. To optimize for faster load times, Deepfish takes a snapshot of the selected page reduced to fit on the mobile screen and sends that view to the mobile device. When a user zooms to a particular portion of the page, a more detailed version of only that specific portion is sent down to the device. This provides a much faster page load experience than many traditional mobile browsers.
Deepfish technology preview, like Photosynth and Seadragon, is another example of Microsoft Live Labs’ continued mission, which is the incubation of innovative, Internet-centric technologies, through rapid prototyping of emerging technologies and incubation of entirely new inventions, to improve and accelerate the next evolution of Microsoft’s Internet products and services.
With Deepfish, Microsoft is providing limited access to the technology preview on a first-come, first-serve basis. To experience Deepfish technology yourself, please:
More information on Deepfish is available here. To get download you must register here.