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Web Browsing on Your PSP
yodha writes "A guy has hacked the hidden browser inside the PSP to view external webpages. His webpage has info on that, some screenshots and a video. Yes, you can get Slashdot on a PSP! The PSINext forum and engadget are covering the same news."
So with a browsing solution out there, and obvious easier to implement hacks on the way, who flinches first and releases their web browser? PSP or DS? You know they both have them up their sleeves, or will we all just have to wait until E3 like good kids?
1. Only native Nintendo Games will be released
Nintendo Homebrew and hacking
2. Nobody uses a DS anyway , only little 5 year old kids called Timmy who don't even know what Slashdot is.
Yes, because games like metroid and goldeneye are aimed at 5 year olds.
Just remember, god hates console fanboys
For the DNS man in the middle attack, use http://67.171.70.72/wipeout/
It is a really nice portal someone made for it. There's one of the free sites for the PSP too, if you don't already have one. I have one, but I'm trying to get a free one to sell on eBay. If you care, check my homepage for the link.
IMHO, after playing Wipeout Pure, Ridge Racer, and Twisted Metal, the best game of the three is Ridge Racer. That game truly shows off the graphics of the platform.
Developing a pure CSS/XHTML site means that the site's content will display even without CSS support. If you're using Firefox with the Web Developer extension, you can hit CTRL+SHIFT+D and see the same thing.
I usually avoid user agent detection, simply because I don't want to keep up with the different browsers. I rarely do anything that can't be supported on all of the major browsers at the time. I've been to sites where I was rejected because I wasn't using IE4+. It was bad coding - someone assumed that all non-IE browsers were probably Netscape 4. Six years later, that no longer cuts it.
For accessibility (I think that's what you meant), it's worth setting up a handful of stylesheets for different browsers/readers. Definitely produce a print-friendly stylesheet.
Why would anyone even attempt to create a browser for the DS?
You can make the entire bottom touch screen into a keyboard, it would be perfect for web browsing. You could even set it up to auto-hide so you get a full vertical view of the page...
Have you metaroderated recently?
Because a PSP is 250, as opposed to laptops which are at least twice that.
Because a PSP is portable, as opposed to desktops which definitely don't fit in your pocket.
Because uh, it's shiny?
Suggestion:
Don't just rely on user-agent sniffing. Create a selection box on your site to allow the client to override the format your page comes down in and save it in a cookie (Not in database persisted user account prefs). USER-AGENT headers seem to be a moving target.
Default the one that comes down of course.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
According the hack page, he's working on testing the browser to see if it has java. If it does have java, then pretty much, now you've got IRC on your PSP.
In America, you spam computers In Soviet Russia, computers spam you!
Weird how I enjoy both Yoshi's Touch and Go on my DS with it's pastel colors while I can enjoy a good game of Ninja Gaiden on my Xbox or Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube.
Don't buy into the age group propaganda. I'm 24 and see games only as they are, regardless of the look : games. A good game doesn't rely on the user being a certain age to enjoy it. If you let yourself be limited by that, then too bad for you.
..and they're going to get it published on the psp how?
I think they're better spending their time developing for platforms that embrace 3rd party independendt developers.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The browser is not fully HTML compliant. It doesn't even parse <h1> tags.
You're right, digital signatures and encryption have never been cracked.
~jeff
Why now? This has been an outstanding problem for mobile browsing for years. Anyone that has a PDA, cellphone or palmtop that has net access can attest to that. Some sites are good, and there are many link sites lists which ones are the best for PDA viewing. It's good to hear that you are actively working on supporting these for your CMS package, I just wish others would do the same!
Surprisingly, Slashdot is one of the worst; it's almost completely unusable on a PDA. You can tweak settings and get by, but you'd think this of all places would have it right!
It's not age group propoganda. Lot's of people just don't find "colorful" games all that appealing. For example, I found the mechanics of Wind Waker to be great, but the game itself to be quite boring, becuase the world it portrayed just wasn't very engrossing. Let me use an analogy. I don't watch romantic comedies. They can be perfectly entertaining and good movies in their own right, but I still don't find them enjoyable, mainly because of their subject-matter. The same is true for me and "kiddie" games.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
The problem with that is what if for example you have a very graphical website, it could be difficult for the users to find the form to submit their information when all your sites images are squished into a portable devices screen.
Agreed.
Make this small and unobtrusive, but at the first part of the webpage if the cookie isn't set.
Maybe move it out of the way after it is set in case it needs to be changed.
What I do is I have a link on the top of my page where users of portable devices can login. No checking for agent types or resolutions. And if the site is squished into a small screen, its easy to find.
That is exactly what i recommended against.
What happens when your users use more than one device? Maybe I want slashdot on the psp AND on firefox on my desktop.
This should be a cookie, and browser instance specific, not user account specific.
Checking the resolution of the screen is another way to do it (if you do not want to keep up with the different agent types), if its a very small resolution, you can assume they would need the text based version of your site instead of the very graphical site.
Interesting, but it seems to make this work uniformly against most browsers/platforms it would be as difficult as maintaining all known USER-AGENT headers.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
Here's an example:
Zelda 1 involved controlling Link in a top-view and solving puzzles and defeating enemies in a dungeon to get the triforce pieces.
Zelda 2 involved a side-scrolling Link, and was more action-based than the previous title.
Super Metroid, arguably the greatest 2D platformer of all time, involves a side-view of Samus as you go through the planet in search of the last Metroid.
Metroid Prime brings the game into the 3D realm, a first person adventure game involving light platforming and lots of shooting and exploring.
Those examples are better examples of "ports that are original from the sequel" than your "Halo on the PC is different from Halo on the Xbox" example...
I swear, this kiddy argument is the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen...You're acting like a pre-teen, wanting to "prove" your adulthood...Guess what buddy? I'm 22, and I'm pretty comfortable with my adulthood; I don't need my videogames to tell people I'm "mature." If you need your games to do that, then that's the furthest from the definition of "being mature" that you can get.
The casual gamers like yourself have forgotten that games just need to be fun. If games stop being about fun and start being about image, then what is the point to videogaming?
>> six years later, that no longer cuts it.
No sh*t. If you're a web developer and you really need to channel content types, do it after parsing HTTP_ACCEPT not HTTP_USER_AGENT.
They are both part of the request header and can be used much more accurately to sniff browser capabilities. Even if someone has changed their UA string to googlebot or lynx or whatever, the content-types are still present in the HTTP_ACCEPT string...
It's just lazy coding IMHO.
http://request-header.info