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Game Forum / Nintendo / Game Boy / December 2006Opera web browser for Wii is up for some parts of the world
people in the UK seem to have it now. I can't get it yet, im in central U.S. time. but many people are reporting they've got it. I guess U.S. will have to wait until it becomes midnight Dec 22nd. UK / EUROPEAN / AUSTRALIAN Wii owners, please update us with your impressions of the Wii browser. It's pretty sh.t. You navigate the oversized web pages (still not that easy to read) by holding down the b trigger and pointing to arrows on the sides of the screen. Why they couldn'thave used the amazing grab/hold technique the wii uses everywhere else is beyond me. It won't show porn of any kind - it reverts to the title screen after a few seconds of flesh with no explanation making you think something is wrong. It also halts youtube movies at about half way and acts glitchy. No flash support either. The favoritres list is populated like the wii menu (big TV screens) so if you have a lot of favorites it wil be a pain to navigate. This also loads slowly which is strange. It would work quite nicely if they fixed all the above. It's speed is fine with a good connection and the typing isn't all that bothersome. On the front page it tells you that the funcionality is limited so maybe it will improve. No wonder this is free, if you'd payed for it you'd be pissed. D > UK / EUROPEAN / AUSTRALIAN Wii owners, please update us with your > impressions of the Wii browser. > It's pretty sh.t. You navigate the oversized web pages (still not that > easy to read) by holding down the b trigger and pointing to arrows on [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > D I wasn't expecting much, but that's interesting about the porn. You think they would use the PICS tag or something to block it, if they really wanted to. Of course, not every site uses them. Wonder if it's some sort of image recognition software. Could be a beta crash of some kind, too. Should be interesting to... errr... "research". Actually you can access porn (at least through google). >>It's pretty sh.t. You navigate the oversized web pages (still not that >>easy to read) by holding down the b trigger and pointing to arrows on [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Should be interesting to... errr... "research". > It won't show porn of any kind - it reverts to the title screen after a > few seconds of flesh with no explanation making you think something is > wrong. This is a good thing... and the reason I suspect it has taken Nintendo this long to release the Opera browser. I would suspect as new Opera releases come available, adult content blocking is going to be a big area of R&D for Opera in order to make Nintendo happy. > > It won't show porn of any kind - it reverts to the title screen after a > > few seconds of flesh with no explanation making you think something is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > releases come available, adult content blocking is going to be a big > area of R&D for Opera in order to make Nintendo happy. if this is true, I knew Nintendo would not allow or want people to be able to surf porn or so called "filth" on their game console--because it would tarnish their image. that said, it's impossible for Nintendo or Opera to stop people from reading adult newsgroups or certain webpages, even if their able to block some of the porn. I'm actually still surprised Nintendo is allowing a web browser on its console (and DS also) at all. you can surf over to Playstation or Xbox websites, you could buy products that compete with Nintendo online with the Wii if you wanted to. you could post bad things about Nintendo with the Wii if you choose to, etc. thanks for the impressions. well I have it now, got it at exactly 3:00 am eastern time. there are some shitty things about it and some good things about it. text is all blurry unless you zoom in. this isnt the fault of the Wii or even the browser, and not even the low-resolution of most TVs, but probably the high dot-pitch of the pixels. when i have my PC hooked up to the TV, small text looks about as unreadable. zooming in on Wii helps. Flash DOES work but not all Flash, not things that use the latest Flash. like you, i was only able to watch maybe half a minute or less of YouTube videos, and now YouTube will not play at all, but others are saying YouTube works off & on, and one person said he could download the video and it worked fine. Google Video works better. when the streaming stops, you just move the slider a little until it starts streaming again. DailyMotion videos seem to work ok, if slowly. Websites load pretty fast. it sucks not having a keyboard. typing on the on-screen keyboard better than other implementations on other keyboard-less browsers, but nothing will replace a real keyboard, which i hope they release soon. And I hope the final version has JAVA, but somehow I doubt it because that would allow emulation of games to be played. the interface is simple but sometimes a pain, and not very well configured. although it works. I too wish you could grab and pull pages around instead of slowly scrolling which is bullshit. there ARE far worse console browsers out there: i.e. anything from Planetweb on Dreamcast is utter sh.t. in some ways, the Opera Wii browser is better than the standard PS3 browser, but the standard PS3 browser is better in other ways. however, I'd imagine if you used Firefox or Opera on PS3 Linux, it would blow away Wii Opera. still, it's a big step for Nintendo to actually allow limited internet access through its console. I hope the Final version is a big improvement, and I hope development of Wii browser does not end with the Final either. I would pay $5-$10 for a better featured browser. > It's pretty sh.t. You navigate the oversized web pages (still not that > easy to read) by holding down the b trigger and pointing to arrows on [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > UK / EUROPEAN / AUSTRALIAN Wii owners, please update us with your > > impressions of the Wii browser. > It's pretty sh.t. You navigate the oversized web pages (still not that > easy to read) by holding down the b trigger and pointing to arrows on the [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > D I agree, it sucks. I haven't surfed any porn but basic you tube clips are just as you describe. At the Nintendo forums someone said if you watch the same clip at Google it will play. The navigation and text size is all wrong. I hope there are improvements. I can't get through to their network... If I try to connect to the Wii Shop channel it keeps giving me an error code "unable to connect to server" and keeps forcing me to try again. Looks like Nintendo isn't setup to deal with the traffic. > people in the UK seem to have it now. I can't get it yet, im in > central U.S. time. but many people are reporting they've got it. I > guess U.S. will have to wait until it becomes midnight Dec 22nd. |
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