Version 1.1 of Skyfire, the mobile browser that aims to offer a ‘PC-like’ browsing experience, is now available. The update delivers a number of significant improvements including zooming and scrolling optimisations, updated reconnect behaviour, better recognition of mobiles sites, and support for legacy WAP sites. Read on for our short initial preview.

 Skyfire, through its server side technology (in effect a proxy browser on steroids), aims to deliver a ‘Web browsing experience, exactly like PC browsing’. Early versions of Skyfire mostly lived up this promise, offering superior page rendering and full video support, but there were some obvious compromises around performance and usability. One of the most notable amongst these was the delay when zooming into a page area and moving around a page.

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