> Silk seems to be an Opera Mini-like proxy browser, where the client asks the server to fetch and render the page, and then receives what’s basically a bitmap

> Silk seems to be an Opera Mini-like proxy browser, where the client asks the server to fetch and render the page, and then receives what’s basically a bitmap image. This makes for very fast browsing and little data traffic. I doubt it's basically a bitmap image, because you lose the ability to highlight the text. My guess is that they'll essentially rewrite the markup, css, resize/recompress images and deliver it all in a single compressed stream that can be decompressed and laid out with something akin to absolute positioning. It could even be that the assets are encoded inline using data uris, but that seems like a stretch.