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.

Microsoft is providing limited access to the technology preview on a first-come, first-serve basis. To experience Deepfish technology yourself, please:

• Visit http://labs.live.com/deepfish/
  from your desktop or mobile device and check the system requirements to ensure your mobile device supports the Deepfish technology preview.
• Register with your email address and the promo code: DFPRESS
• The system will email you an activation ID you will need when running the application for the first time
• You can then download and install the application on your device.

via [ms mobiles]

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