Microsoft Live Labs releases DeepFish, a true Mobile Browser

[Neural]

Forget Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile, Microsoft has borrowed technology from Sea Dragon, the imaging engine behind Photosynth, and has released a new web browser dubbed DeepFish. The idea behind Deepfish is giving the user the ability to view websites on their mobile phone just as they would view them on a desktop or laptop.

Instead of changing the layout of the web page so that it fits onto the screen, which can make load times slower and majorly hinder the usability in finding content, DeepFish first presents the user with a general page layout of the whole site. From there, the user can use a resizable “zoom box” to zoom in to the page for a closer view. Zooming back out is just as easy. In DeepFish, the forward and back buttons can be used for navigating between the different views of the same page. Thanks to Sea Dragon’s multi-resolution view, this can all be done very quickly because DeepFish breaks down the larger web page into tiles which allow zooming. As well, a “queue map” feature speeds up the whole navigation when the user is already zoomed in on a section of the page.

It’s free and available right now (but availability is limited) for any Windows Mobile version 5.0 and up device. “The code is actually written to be potentially cross-platform. But because we ship these rapid prototypes in live labs, we’re shipping it just for that operating system for now,” concluded Alex Daley, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Live Labs.

Download: DeepFish
Video: iPod | MP3 | PSP | WMA | WMV | WMV (High) | Zune
News source: On 10

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=39100

 

[Piesang]

Thanks for the share.

 

[Neural]

I think I am certainly going to give it a look.

Nothing bugs me more than trying to follow a cricket score on cricinfo.com and the pages are in frames and you battle to see what is going on This should solve that problem.

 

[RazorSA]

Thanks for the link Man! I missed the limited download, but was just heading off to Neowin to try download it from somewhere!!!

 

[Rikus]

Portable Firefox remains king.
M$ has never, and will never, make a good browser.
Full stop.

 

[YelloFever]

Portable Firefox remains king.
M$ has never, and will never, make a good browser.
Full stop.

Thanks for the link

MTNDD

 

[nGAGEd55]

Portable Firefox remains king.

Portable Firefox?... I only know of the one you put on USB flash drives and runs on standard pc's... maybe have a link?

 

[YelloFever]

Portable Firefox?... I only know of the one you put on USB flash drives and runs on standard pc's... maybe have a link?

I would love to get Firefox on my HTC TYTN when I get it

MTNDD

 

[Rikus]

On the mobile front, Mozilla on Monday released Minimo 007, the latest version of the prerelease mobile browser with an interface built in XUL (Extensible User Interface Language).

A XUL interface makes it easier for Mozilla to use Firefox features in Minimo and make the browser work on a wide array of device operating systems, including those produced by Microsoft.
Now on News.com:

* At Kink.com, making a fetish of HD
* Newsmaker: For Chicago chef, it's prepare, print, serve
* Newsmaker: Solar as a service? SunEdison thinks so
* Extra: More on the Sonic/Mario Olympics game

"This may be the first handheld browser to have both tabbed browsing and Web services support," said Doug Turner, the Mozilla engineer heading up the Minimo project. "It offers desktoplike browsing functionality optimized for small screens...so you can access Gmail or Google Maps. Secondly, this is built on the same platform as Firefox. This will allow, for the first time, extension writers to access the handheld platform. Extensions like AdBlocker and even Greasemonkey may be easily ported and seamlessly run on these handhelds."

Take from:
http://news.com.com/Firefox+downloaded+75+million+times/2100-1032_3-5805807.html

Link to app:
http://www.meer.net/~dougt/minimo_ce/MinimoCE_0.007.zip

 

[Rikus]

Read more and download.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/

 

[YelloFever]

Read more and download.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/

Thanks a lot guys

MTNDD

 

[DuCy]

Ok guys, just got an email from Microsoft with the download link for deepfish anybody got it?

 

[Voldemort]

Ok guys, just got an email from Microsoft with the download link for deepfish anybody got it?

hi there

could you pm me the link, id much like to try this?

 

[DuCy]

hi there

could you pm me the link, id much like to try this?

You got a PM

 

[dotVIBE]

find the cab files for ppc and smartphone versions of deepfish here:

http://www.qwertybar.com/misc/deepfish/

I assume you guys know how to install off cab files.

 

[dotVIBE]

btw, you'll need to email M$ for an activation key.

The best ppc browser imo is still the picsel browser.

http://sunuweb.free.fr/piscelbrowser.cab

 

[Voldemort]

You got a PM

you are a legend, thanks mate!

 

[MyDraadloos]

btw, you'll need to email M$ for an activation key.

The best ppc browser imo is still the picsel browser.

http://sunuweb.free.fr/piscelbrowser.cab

Are you using this ?

I guess one would have to remap the Internet key on RH top of TyTN ? Right ?

 

[AirWolf]

I think I am certainly going to give it a look.

Nothing bugs me more than trying to follow a cricket score on cricinfo.com and the pages are in frames and you battle to see what is going on This should solve that problem.

Try www.cric8.com:D