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Deepfish is an experimental mobile browsing system, being developed at Microsoft Live labs, that makes use of the Zooming User Interface metaphor. Deepfish aims to provide a consistent browsing experience across the desktop as well as the mobile phone, by preserving the layout of the page — without the need to recode the web-page for mobile phones.

Whenever a page is opened, a zoomed-out and shrunk rendering of the page is presented, maintaining the formatting as would be in a desktop browser. The Deepfish browser presents a selection rectangle which can be then used to zoom into certain areas of the web page. In the zoomed-in state, the entire page can be panned around as well.

Deepfish works by having the browser to be a light-weight client powered by a higly capable server backend, which does most of the processing. This architecture also improves load times and responsiveness, by having the server backend stream only the data that is being zoomed-into at any moment.

The Deepfish browser was made available for a limited preview only. It is, however, far from release quality, with important features - like JavaScript, cookies etc - not yet implemented.

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