This week at the Emerging Technology Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft debuted a preview version of Deepfish, a web-browsing technology for mobile devices that aims to mimic the experience of a full-fledged computer browser, writes CNET.

Available for smart phones running Windows Mobile, the program enables web browsing that presents sites as they would appear on a desktop or laptop computer's browser rather than the stripped-down versions that wireless devices typically offer.

When users first navigate to a website in Deepfish, they see a thumbnail display of the whole page. Deepfish's "zoom box" feature then enables Windows Mobile users to move in on selected portions of the page.

The Microsoft Labs blog describes Deepfish's goal as "preserving the rich layout and full form of documents on mobile devices while providing novel ways of effectively navigating that content on small screens."