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Wii's Opera Browser Now Downloadable
As we discussed earlier this week, the Opera browser for the Wii is available in a sort of trial form today. Game|Life has apparently been so taken with this offering, that they've redesigned their site so that it can be easily viewable via the Wii browser. They also have the official details on the download. From that article: "Nintendo is currently offering a free trial of Opera for Wii which is now available for download. The release of the final version of the Opera browser for Wii is currently scheduled for late March 2007. Opera for Wii will remain a free download until June 30, 2007. After June 30, Opera will be available for download from the Wii Shop Channel for 500 Wii points. Users who download Opera before June 30, 2007, can continue to use the browser at no cost for the lifetime of the Wii system." The release goes on to mention how you can develop for the browser, with helpful website links and references.
Along with a video and screenshots, Game|Life links to a comic by Opera explaining how to get it working:i /comic/
...yeah
http://www.opera.com/products/devices/nintendo/wi
Video: http://www.opera.com/nintendo/wii/video
Pictures: http://www.opera.com/nintendo/wii/screenshots
Anyone else think the comments just weren't rendering right before they turned off ABP and saw ads?
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I did quite like using it but after an hour I had a headache.
Jonathan
- Wand
- Cookies
- Preferences
- some type of keyboard accessory for the Wii (I know this was mentioned already
With these four things, I truly believe the Opera browser on Wii will be a near-desktop quality Internet experience. While triyng to post comments on Slashdot using Wii, I noticed that every time a new page loaded I would have to log back in. This told me that either there is no Cookie support whatsoever, or that perhaps there was just a bug with them. Another thing that would be nice is for Opera to remember recently typed in words, so in fields such as "username" or "password" it would have remembered to offer my username "despero" instead of continuing to suggest "desperate," etc. Basically, everything I listed above comes down to the pain of having to type using an on-screen keyboard. Wand, Cookies, and a keyboard accessory all simply help to make typing less of a chore. Preferences would be implemented only to configure these things. Web page compatibility and standards support are already very impressive and need only a few tweaks.