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[Dale]

Last week I posted on Deepfish, a new mobile internet browser developed by Microsoft Live Labs. Well this week there’s a video of Deepfish in action and what it can really do. But of course it’s still in development stages and there are still many bugs to work out.

Here’s what Jason Chen from Gizmodo thought about Deepfish on his Cingular 8525:

It's true that the whole setup look quite nice. By taking a snapshot of a webpage on the server side and sending the image to your phone, you get proper rendering without a lot of CPU use. The downside to this is that dynamic pages, javascript, flash, and other web advances since Netscape 1.0 aren't supported.

Other quirks are that it's quite bandwidth heavy and slow if you're on a skinny pipe. Whenever you zoom in, the zoomed-in high quality has to be downloaded from the server. Not too bad, but it does slow down the web browsing experience.

Scrolling isn't bad on my Cingular 8525, but it's nothing to brag about. There are noticeable delays and the page actually cuts off a certain distance down the page. We're not sure what's going on here.

So all in all, it's a nice start for an experimental browser. Sure, there are kinks to be worked out, but in the meantime you can actually get desktop-quality HTML rendering on your WM smartphone. Other phones like the iPhone and certain Series 60 phones support similar browsing features as well. We'll have to put the three together and see who wins.

You can view the video here at Gizmodo. Lets hope we can see it in action on a smartphone soon.

[Yamijay]

No javascript or Flash? Scratch this from the list.

[Motoqicus]

Originally Posted by Dale

[imga="right"]The downside to this is that dynamic pages, javascript, flash, and other web advances since Netscape 1.0 aren't supported.

If that's the case why are they even developing it further? Until it can support dynamic pages it's useless for general browsing.

[Dale]

That's Microsoft for ya.