After my post on mobile pages not rendering nicely using Pocket Internet Explorer,   Microsoft made public today its plans for 'Deepfish'   fresh out of the labs,   a new way to browse web-pages:

http://labs.live.com/deepfish/default.aspx

(www.msmobiles.com mentions that if you type a promotion code of DFPRESS, you can download a copy)

I guess my approach is always to build pages that render correctly and quickly on a small screen device.   The approach Deepfish and other mobile browsers (like ZenZui ) try and achieve is to make the full screen browser experience fit on a small form factor display providing panning and scrolling of web-pages.   I guess technologies like Deepfish are the future, but surely building web pages with mobile in users in mind is still appropriate until this technology is mainstream?   

Deepfish's web site mentions that it is a few releases away from Beta quality missing a few things like cookies, AJAX and ActiveX.    I wonder why the existing Pocket IE code base hasn't been used  ?    

Next problem to solve is how to key those darn long url's in on a phone keypad.... (I wait for the comments to come flooding in )