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foxtail on 05 November 2012

Wii U Internet Browser Specs

Wii U comes with a browser that lets you browse the Internet from the comfort of your couch. No need to interrupt your favorite show—browse purely on the GamePad while your program continues on the TV. You can also pause a game, launch the browser to search for tips on the game you're playing, and then re-enter the game right where you left off.

Browser Engine

NetFront® Browser NX v2.1

User agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Nintendo WiiU) AppleWebKit/534.52 (KHTML, like Gecko) NX/{Version No} NintendoBrowser/{Version No}.US

Supported Protocols

HTTP1.0/HTTP1.1/SSL3.0/TLS1.0/TLS1.1/TLS1.2

Web Standard

HTML4.01/HTML5/XHTML1.1/CSS1/CSS2.1/CSS3. (partial functionality)
DOM1-3/ECMAScript
XMLHttpRequest/canvas/Video/Web Storage (partial functionality)
Web Messaging/Server-Sent Events/Device Orientation/WOFF/SVG

Plug-ins

Does not support plug-ins, such as Adobe Flash.

TouchEvent

The browser supports only one of these at a time: touchstart, touchend, touchmove, touchcancel

Screen resolution

If it isn’t specified, width is 980px layout
It is possible to specify width/height of the viewport within the HTML’s ..., and specify scaling permission via user-scalable meta tags.
(e.g)

Saving/upload of image/video

Not supported

Video Format

MP4, M3U8+TS(HTTPLiveStreaming)
(Some videos may not be playable.)

Video Codec

H.264 - MPEG-4 AVC Video
(Some videos may not be playable.)

Audio Codec

AAC - ISO/IEC 14496-3 MPEG-4 AAC
(Some audio may not be playable.)



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Teriol on 05 November 2012

great, html 5 is the future... now wait for the haters to come and say some ramdon argument about the lack of flash support.



34 years playing games.

 

miz1q2w3e on 05 November 2012
foxtail said:

Wii U comes with a browser that lets you browse the Internet from the comfort of your couch. No need to interrupt your favorite show—browse purely on the GamePad while your program continues on the TV. You can also pause a game, launch the browser to search for tips on the game you're playing, and then re-enter the game right where you left off.

Fav part of the article :)

Off topic: Maybe that's part of why they have 1GB RAM reserved for "OS"?



d21lewis on 05 November 2012

I do like saving pics from the net--it's a habit of mine from the PSP, PS3, 3DS, and Vita. It's not a big deal, though.



miz1q2w3e on 05 November 2012

@d21lewis and spurge: What are you guys referring to? (print screen)



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mootap on 05 November 2012

All I hope for is that crunchyroll works..I hate watching anime on my tiny screen ipod



foxtail on 05 November 2012
miz1q2w3e said:
@d21lewis and spurge: What are you guys referring to? (print screen)

Screen capture an image of the game you're playing.  I think someone mentioned being able to do so?



superchunk on 05 November 2012

Sounds good so far. I wonder if Mozilla has a downloadable version that I can put on my PC to run it through its paces. Sound about as good as any mobile/tablet browser really. For me and my couch needs, that's more than enough.



mootap on 05 November 2012
foxtail said:
miz1q2w3e said:
@d21lewis and spurge: What are you guys referring to? (print screen)

Screen capture an image of the game you're playing.  I think someone mentioned being able to do so?

that doesn't have to do with the browser though.It's more of a miiverse feature



superchunk on 05 November 2012

http://gl.access-company.com/products/browser/netfrontbrowsernx-2/