I haven’t tried a recent version of Minimo yet but I intend to do so. Where Deepfish shines for me is those websites that I visit frequently like the Houston Chronicle front page that has a ton of content and links to other information. Deepfish loads those pages very quickly even on EDGE and the scrolling of the zoom window is instantaneous and very fluid. I find I am using it all the time, in fact I usually fire it up first over IE which says something.

From what I’ve seen, this would not be something I’d want to use for general browsing. Between Josh’s video and the screenshots I’ve seen, it seems that when the full page is shown it’s all but impossible to read the content of the page, especially on QVGA devices; to read, you have to zoom in and pan around the page. If I wanted to pan around the page to read, I’d leave IE Mobile in “Desktop” layout. When I’m browsing on the go, it’s the content I want, and I don’t care what the page looks like as long as I can read what I came to see as easily and efficiently as possible.

Deepfish looks to be useful for pages which simply don’t reformat well in “traditional” mobile browsers such as IE Mobile, but unless it does text reflowing for ease of reading, I won’t be using this very often.

I don’t get it. How do you find scrolling left/right useful? Sure, maybe if you have to occasionally look something up on a web page, but if I want to do serious reading in a web browser I only want to scroll up and down, not left/right and Deepfish doesn’t address that.

What are the pros and cons of deepfish versus minimo???