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Wii's Opera Browser Now Downloadable

Posted by Zonk on from the they-see-us dept.

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.

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  1. Re:just got it working by Fozzyuw · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, my experience is...

    • Checked my Gmail account
    • Difficult to see the screen, as it was really small. You can 'zoom' in with the +/- buttons
    • Gmail rendered nicely, and fairly fast.
    • After being zoomed in, I hit the 'back' button to go back, and my Wii hard locked. I had to press (and hold) the power button on the console to turn it on/off. It rebooted and there where no 'side effects'. However, I couldn't turn the Wii off with the Wii Remote.

    So, at that point, I was out the door to work. It's what I expect. This is more or less a open 'beta' test for the opera browser (without specifically saying it's an open beta test by Opera or Nintendo).

    There will need to be a 'wii keyboard' or remote attachment. One that can fold up, like I've seen on some PDA's would be cool. But also allowing any USB keyboard to plug and play from the console would be nice as well.

    The Gmail site rendered well and apparently JavaScript works well. I haven't tried any flash heavy sites, and I'm not sure how some sites will render, but I think it will be fairly good or as expected for a normal Opera browser. Though, I might just toss up some CSS pages to see how well this Opera browser supports CSS.

    Cheers,
    Fozzy

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  2. Re:Neat! by Mirkon · · Score: 4, Informative

    In fact, the Wii Opera browser does have such a thing, when you press the '2' button it will compress an entire page into a single vertical column with larger text. But, any site that has a navigation bar makes this difficult to scroll through, since the nav bar will take up the top of the page and then some.

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