Microsoft has unveiled a pre-beta version of Deepfish, a new Web browser for mobile devices that will supposedly make browsing full-sized Web pages faster and easier.
Deepfish takes a full Web page and turns it into a screen capture that fits on a mobile phone's screen. Users can zoom in on the part of the page they want to read or click on. What amounts to a Microsoft proxy server sits between the user and the internet taking an instant screenshot when you access a page, and serving that image to you so you can zoom in on and pan around.
Deepfish represents and interesting concept in how to serve pages to mobile devices but some privacy concerns are obviously raised if Microsoft has a proxy server between you and the web page.
Deepfish takes a full Web page and turns it into a screen capture that fits on a mobile phone's screen. Users can zoom in on the part of the page they want to read or click on. What amounts to a Microsoft proxy server sits between the user and the internet taking an instant screenshot when you access a page, and serving that image to you so you can zoom in on and pan around.
Deepfish represents and interesting concept in how to serve pages to mobile devices but some privacy concerns are obviously raised if Microsoft has a proxy server between you and the web page.
