Microsoft Unveils Mobile Browser With Zoom-In Feature

Deepfish was introduced in preview this week at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

By Antone Gonsalves

InformationWeek, March 29, 2007 03:52 PM

Microsoft has launched a technology preview of a mobile browser that tries to deliver a desktop-like view of Web pages.

The company introduced Deepfish this week at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego as a limited technology preview. The software is available by invitation only to a small number of beta users.

Developed by Microsoft Live Labs, the browser has a zoom in/out feature that makes it different than similar software used on phones today. Rather than offering a reformatted version of a Web page, Deepfish captures and delivers the full layout in an as-designed view. Using the software's joystick, the user can navigate through a page and zoom in and out of portions. The browser doesn't support Web sites with Ajax, animation, Javascript, cookies, or ActiveX controls.

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