Hacking Why use webkit still?

[Flame]

why not outsource your web browser get it maintained by a real team?

why still use outdated webkit?

why not learn from past mistakes?

 

[The Catboy]

Why are they still tagging a web browser on the system in the first place, is a better question.

 

[Flame]

Why are they still tagging a web browser on the system in the first place, is a better question.

a game system for games?

"We'll shall not have such make sense in the interwebs"
- tupac shakur

 

[Enteking]

Because Webkit is the #1 browser engine with the greatest market share. Both Apple and Google use products based on or derived from it. And a web browser is mandatory for wireless access.

 

[Flame]

Because Webkit is the #1 browser engine with the greatest market share. Both Apple and Google use products based on or derived from it. And a web browser is mandatory for wireless access.

what does best market share got to do about a gaming system? i think nintendo cares of the market share in the gaming sector not browser engine.

if you said it was the most secure compared to other ones and showed proof why it is then we will be talking.

 

[Coto]

what does best market share got to do about a gaming system? i think nintendo cares of the market share in the gaming sector not browser engine.

if you said it was the most secure compared to other ones and showed proof why it is then we will be talking.

I think it has to do with not reinventing the wheel all over again (there are too much CVE that are well documented and bugfixes)

I suppose going by your own web browser engine for a new console equals to no security at all thus asking it politely to be hacked while wasting time in r & d that is already supported/documented out there

edit: typo

 

[Flame]

I think it has to do with not reinventing the wheel all over again (there are too much CVS that are well documented and bugfixes)

I suppose going by your own web browser engine for a new console equals to no security at all thus asking it politely to be hacked while wasting time in r & d that is already supported/documented out there

but why not like in the past pay opera or any other company to maintain the web browser? or even think outside the box for the web browser.

for people who don't know opera was the maintainer of the DSi web browser to this day which has no known exploit.

 

[Dimensional]

but why not like in the past pay opera or any other company to maintain the web browser? or even think outside the box for the web browser.

for people who don't know opera was the maintainer of the DSi web browser to this day which has no known exploit.

Or maybe they could work out a license or deal with another SDK developer to create a web browser. There are some good ones, like Mozilla or even building one entirely using QT. At least the latter would allow your projects to remain closed source.

 

[Ooka]

Because we (People that work on the web) do not need another unmaintained browser to worry about support for. Using webkit is honestly the best move they could have made, even if they didn't include an actual browser. It will most likely be supported long after the Switch has dwindling support, is actively maintained and supports some cutting edge web tech.

 

[Dimensional]

Because we (People that work on the web) do not need another unmaintained browser to worry about support for. Using webkit is honestly the best move they could have made, even if they didn't include an actual browser. It will most likely be supported long after the Switch has dwindling support, is actively maintained and supports some cutting edge web tech.

Yeah, but they could have at least bothered to use a version that didn't have a known exploit. Not that I'm complaining. Anything to open the doors for homebrew is a good thing... just as long as it's only for homebrew and not piracy.

 

[Kioku]

Yup. The problem isn't that they're using webkit. It's that they're using such a dated version. Not sure why on that part.

 

[Ooka]

If I had to guess, time wasn't budgeted for research into webkit versioning (Probably since it was wasn't planned to be user-facing entirely). The version we see was probably provided in some framework or toolset they used. Again I'm just guessing, but I highly doubt "We should use an outdated version of webkit just to open security exploits and make people wtf a lot" was the conversation that went on.

 

[McHaggis]

why not outsource your web browser get it maintained by a real team?

They have. The browser is NetFront, maintained by Access Co., Ltd.

why still use outdated webkit?

This is the engine NetFront have based their modern browser on. They'd have to go with a different company if they wanted to change it, but most other companies are also using WebKit as the source engine. My guess is that Nintendo have a pretty good relationship with the NetFront developer.

why not learn from past mistakes?

Who's to say they haven't? For all we know, they may have much better security in the Nintendo Switch. Take a look at the PS3 and PS4, both have webkit-based browsers with exploits available but browser-based hacking isn't mainstream for either console.

but why not like in the past pay opera or any other company to maintain the web browser? or even think outside the box for the web browser.

Nowadays, Opera is basically Chromium/Chrome with a different UI. Still based on Blink, which is based on WebKit.

for people who dont know opera was the maintainer of the DSi web browser to this day which has not known exploit.

That's not to say that exploits don't exist. The community effort behind hacking the DSi was much smaller than the 3DS.

 

[Sticker]

The benefits of webview for Nintendo is easy display news contents, eshop was build using web technologies. For user, Nintendo don’t give us any web browser because it don’t bring them any profit, they have to pay developers for make and maintenance that feature. Web also have lot of security pigfall make system easy to attacked by hacker. So Switch have web browser it self but only active for news, eshop, link accounts.
The only reason is they have to pay alot to maintain web browser as well as pay for related licensees