Smiles and Cries
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wow really? do you know who is the dev behind it?
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WiiU and Vita beta/dev browsers HTML5 scores
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wow really? do you know who is the dev behind it?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Time for that PSV browser update!
Smiles and Cries
Member
considering the missing features are just what Nintendo is looking out for security and legal reasons yeah pretty damn good start. I'll be all over that thing.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Vita.
Why u no copy paste?
This is like, the most basic thing that needs to be sorted out.
Why u no copy paste?
This is like, the most basic thing that needs to be sorted out.
AranhaHunter
Banned
It used to be up there. Was the second shittiest, only better than the vita browser. I'll try testing when I get home.
What do you mean the missing features are what Nintendo is looking out for security and legal reasons?
DeuceGamer
Member
IE 10 shows 320 so Wii U Browser better than IE 10. Looks like they've took the Gamepad serious as a device that will be multi-functional in some households.
There's an ARM chip in Wii U?
There is a multicore ARM yes
Smiles and Cries
Member
The missing features from the lists on the test site where "NO" is listed seem to line up with Open Platform uses like a PC would benefit from. A closed platform like WiiU may not need them and would need to consider piracy as to what features are active in a browser. I don't see many "NOs" but that is the only thing limiting the score.
I know Miiverse will be browser/web based on other platforms, I wonder if this this the reason this is so close to being fully featured
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
New platform with newer tech support. Surprise, surprise!!
Here's hoping future devices are future proof.
Here's hoping future devices are future proof.
Knowing 70% of people use their tablet only at home, mostly to browse the web, the GamePad will quickly find a place beyond gaming. Moreso knowing it's also a TV remote, with TVii features, video chat features, etc.
The GamePad being very close to an iPad mini as far as browsing is concerned raises Wii U's value significantly.
The GamePad being very close to an iPad mini as far as browsing is concerned raises Wii U's value significantly.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
My PS3 slim:
The mountain is getting smaller!
The lack of multitouch makes it a bit shitty for browsing though.
In what way? Multitouch is used for zoom, which can be mapped to buttons or a stick.
Smiles and Cries
Member
My PS3 slim:
how many updates have this browser gone through so far?
iceatcs
Junior Member
There are 13 updates that did for browsers (out of ~60 updates). NOT all of them are for improvement/performance.
I count that 6 of them are design to improvement, and 7 are addition features like printer support/newest flash version etc...
Sound like they only did once a year major update their browser. That is really poor. I hope next time will be better.
Me neither, however if the Wii U turns out speedy enough in minimizing a game and switching to the browser, I could sort of see myself using it a lot; especially if it really performs as well as the test implies.
Also, how could html5test.com have gotten hold of Wii U data? Someone in Nintendo HQ intentionally submitted a test result? I know unreleased Apple devices sometimes get caught on the web, but I thought Nintendo was more secretive.
Agent X
Member
They probably noticed their browser was smacking down the other game consoles' browsers by a rather large margin, so they went ahead and submitted it.
I'm curious about this PS Vita "beta" browser. That's quite a jump from before. While it's not quite Wii U level, it's still a considerable improvement. Hopefully this is something that will be released to the public very soon.
I'm sure it's a new version the developers are currently testing out. Don't get too excited though, have you checked to see what it actually supports? No html5 video, no audio, no web audio api; it gets a bunch of points for native binary support for WebGL, but doesn't actually support WebGL. Unless they fix the scrolling where it fills in the screen by chunks, I doubt most people would notice the difference between the beta browser and the old one.
The PS3 went from a browser meant for pre-iPhone mobile phones to a webkit-based one, but because it didn't support html5 video and the flash plugin remained the same many people felt it wasn't much of a difference. Oh well, at least Sony finally gives the option to turn off the "Do you want to run the plugin?" question, only took them six years.
Internal testers may have tested it on the site, so that's how it would have been added to their database.
entremet
Member
Vita and Vita beta browsers are two different things. ???
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
To be clear, this implies obvious HTML5 support already in right? It's not some impossible dream or something but I'm eagerly awaiting such an update for Vita sine I use it a lot for browsing.
Agent Unknown
Member
Yes, HTML5 is already in and sites like YouTube already work on it:
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/31760
That's a great score, I can't wait to try the new browser. My launch day is going to be marathon sessions of NSMBU and MST3K episodes on YouTube.
Firefox doesn't either.
I wonder how viable this will be for web based games to be playable via WiiU's touchscreen controller. Is Nintendo going to have a dashboard full of ads, like xbox? If I were making an HTML 5 game that was suitable, I'd definitely want to advertise on that dashboard and link to my game.
mugurumakensei
Member
Not many browsers support mp3s natively. That's done via extensions. If Nintendo included mp3 support, they'd have to pay a royalty with each system sold with the controller possibly being considered a separate system.
Not sure if posted elsewhere. Info on Wii U browser. Essentially NetFront Browser NX v2.1.
Quite a technical rundown actually.
I don't use a browser to play mp3's and I imagine most people don't either.
Quite a technical rundown actually.
I don't use a browser to play mp3's and I imagine most people don't either.
Maastricht
Member
Yes, but then I compared features, and the new one also seems to have zero support for Audio and Video playback, so much will depend on how they integrate features like opening links in Youtube and such ... So I'm not really getting my hopes up, except that Yoshida seems to be a man of his word, which is hopeful in itself!
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Smiles and Cries
Member
thanks I was asking about that before
shadyspace
Banned
What kind of streaming video will the Wii U browser support? Just HTML5? A lot of stuff is HTML5, right?
Wii U browser vs IE 10 vs Firefox 16
You can click on the browser boxes up top (with the total scores in them) to select and compare different platforms.
You can click on the browser boxes up top (with the total scores in them) to select and compare different platforms.
Not bad at all since every serious site supporting HTML5 audio tags also offer Ogg Vorbis which Wii U supports.
Tizen 2 (Samsungs own mobile OS) is reported to reach 485...
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Hm, will the Wii U browser display in a 720p or 1080p resolution?
You have NFI.
It has NOTHING to do with piracy!
This is a test of what HTML 5 features a browser supports! What this means is that any webpage that use the unsupported features will be broken!
I can only imagine the OS layer being viewable in 1080p. From what I understand, the browser will be part of the OS layer (just like on 3DS), so Full HD browsing should pretty much be a given.
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