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Microsoft Unveils Mobile Web Browser

30 Mar, 2007, 11:46 am IST | Shayne Rana | Windows

Microsoft Corp. has recently unveiled a new Web browser called Deepfish for mobile phones. The software is designed to enhance web browsing for smartphones. Microsoft says the software will make browsing full-sized Web pages faster and easier.

The software is designed to adjust a normal desktop webpage into a smaller image for mobile screen. It also has a function for users to zoom in on the part of the page they want to read or click on.

The software runs on technology borrowed from Sea Dragon, a software company that Microsoft recently acquired. Seadragon has made a statement that Deepfish is capable of living up to the following:

  • Speed of navigation is independent of the size or number of objects
  • Performance depends only on the ratio of bandwidth to pixels on the screen.
  • Transitions are smooth as butter.
  • Scaling is near perfect and rapid for screens of any resolution.
Dr. Gary William Flake the founder and director of Microsoft Live Labs, said, "With the Deepfish technology, we capture the full layout of the page and deliver it to the mobile device, resulting in an experience similar to that on the desktop. Deepfish provides users with a full 'as-designed' view of virtually any Web site on their mobile device and looks as you would expect it to on your desktop, allowing much more of the Web to be easily viewed on a mobile device than is possible today. The interface lets users 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. On current mobile browsers, it can typically take up to a minute or more for a Web page to render, however the Deepfish architecture only loads the user-specified portion of the page, providing much quicker page-load times, as detailed information is only retrieved as needed or in the background."

Tags: Microsoft , Deepfish

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