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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."
This reminds me of a little Slashdot article about CSS, plus the ongoing Slashdot forum about redoing Slashdot in XHTML and CSS. Now that PSP has browser functionality, I think it's imperative for web developers to examine their sites for usability. I would be interested to see how DHTML is handled on the PSP, for example, by testing the Milonic package. I seriously doubt it would work very well on PSP, but you never know.
This raises the issue of UserAgent sniffing. Right now I'm developing an Open Source CMS called Gemsites (link in sig), and I'm considering supporting cut-down templates for PocketPC, Palm and (now) PSP. I've got the code set up to sniff the UserAgent and make a decision on it, thanks to php.net's user-assist messages in the function database. But now I'm wondering if my whole CMS will stand up to the more compact screens used by PSP et al. I guess what I'm saying is that if you're a developer and you know CSS/XHTML and/or PHP, I would like to talk to you about usability.
From TFA
"Yes you can use input (we googled stuff), when you enter a textbox and press X the PSP pops up the Keyboard API (remember there's alot of API to be taken advantage of with the PSP). After that its as simple as any other input on the PSP."
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
Someone has already kindly setup a portal for all you people who want to view this without setting up a DNS server or from any access point.
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You can see his portal with your web browser (computer) here:
http://67.171.70.72/wipeout/index.html
To use this on your PSP simply set your DNS to 67.171.70.72 inside the network settings then go into Wipeout Pure and hit Download.
For more information visit this dudes website avaliable at:
http://fugimax.base2.org/
In other news the PSP firmware has been updated on the Japanese handhelds. See the following forum thread for more info:
http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=1201&sta
For those curious you can extract the files from the update by using this C program avaliable on the following site:
http://www.oopo.net/consoledev/files/unpack-pbp.c
Enjoy!
Have you metaroderated recently?
Now I have to buy this little Sony wonder.
I assume that was meant as a joke, but it brings up a really good point. Put on your tinfoil hats and wax with me a moment...
What if the designers of the PSP made their APIs as open as possible in order to entice people to cook up emulators for the platform? Of course, they could never admit this publically, but what if one handheld, in this case the PSP, could emulate a competitor's product? Conventional Wisdom tells us that an emulator usually won't be able to emulate a current system's hardware effectively, but if the PSP could, say, play GBA and N64 games in addition to playing its own titles, it could be an unstoppable device.
Naturally, Sony would have to condemn anyone running competing games on their platform lest they get charged with unfair business practices, but behind closed doors this could be exactly what Sony needs to gain major market share over Nintendo in this market.
Course, I could be wrong.