Comments on: Microsoft previews Deepfish

By: Doug Steinschneider

Doug Steinschneider — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:34:12 +0000

I signed up months ago for Deepfish - no notification ever came. Decided to get Opera - very happy with its page rendering - doesn't do the full page view though.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:23:45 +0000

Make sure you sign up for notification if they add more. I tried to download it yesterday and was told it was full. I signed up for notification and received an E-mail today around 4pm CDT with an activation code (To be used when you start the program, this is NOT the promo code on the download page. Just leave that blank unless you actually have one). I didn't get home until 6pm CDT, logged on and downloaded without a hitch. Just started playing with it a little on a Cingular 3125 (HTC Star Trek) and it looks pretty good so far.

By: arebelspy

arebelspy — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:48:25 +0000

Sounds like Thunderbird for WM/PPC..

-arebelspy

By: Kunal Kundaje

Kunal Kundaje — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:04:44 +0000

>> Somebody at Microsoft Labs saw Steve Jobs unveiling the iPhone and paid special attention to the web browsing that Jobs demonstrated.

Actually, Deepfish was in development long before the iPhone was unveiled. There was a leaked video of an early build posted on YouTube on December 21, 2006. The Macworld keynote was on January 9, 2007. :)

I've posted a mini-review with some screenshots comparing it to Pocket IE.
http://www.kunal.kundaje.net/2007_03_01_archives.php#4181857532743322192

It's a great start. Still needs work, as their site mentions, but I think it already does the best small-screen rendering compared to all the other WiMo browsers I've tried so far.

By: Ctitanic

Ctitanic — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:34:35 +0000

I'm late! They reached the limit for this preview. Damn!