Gaming Do you expect 3DS internet browser to be good ?

[Snailface]

Browsing on handheld devices always stinks and I expect the 3DS to be no different.

 

[heartgold]

Also, I understand the latest NetFront has lots of great features. But great features tend to raise the requirements and 3DS might not be powerful enough to fulfill them. E.g. check the trailer for Tales of the Abyss 3D - no shadows, no antialiasing, low polygon counts - nothing that PSP couldn't do. And it's an upcoming game!

It's a port! -.- hell think before you put 3DS true power in doubt. Most games released are fucking ports too.

Can that game even run on the psp without to many changes?

I don't know it's impossible to tell, obviously the 3DS has a better hardware/processing power of the two but some games on the 3DS haven't pushed what the system is really capable of.

 

[Rydian]

Guys, GPU power isn't going to determine how good it is at browsing the web.

If JavaScript is supported, we could have online messaging...
e.g. some XMPP/Jabber web client.

Javascript itself yes, but AFAIK all the web clients have moved off of pure javascript and server-side scripts to an amalgamation of shit.

 

[Bunie]

I Expect an updated version of the one on DSi, maybe with some HTML5 support. I don't expect anything more.

 

[rufus83]

As someone said before about the Youtube 3D thing. The 3DS uses a paralax barrier to display 3D which means that the image is vertically interlaced. Youtube 3D has an option for vertically interlaced 3D. I am 100% sure that if the web browser is capable of playing Youtube videos then 3D will work perfectly fine.

 

[ThriLL]

Decent imo. I won't be using it much anyway.

If only we're able to access it after suspending a game. It'd be easier to look up guides.

 

[DiscostewSM]

If only we're able to access it after suspending a game. It'd be easier to look up guides.

If you read up about it, you'll find out that is part of the feature. Much like notes, friend-list, and notifications, the browser can run while games are suspended.

 

[tajio]

I hope it has HTML5 and CSS3 built in. I'm a web developer and would love to create some 3DS ready websites.

 

[digipokemaster]

i hope it better then the dsi oneand i hope we can watch youtube on it and jpopasia videos too ( fyi jpopasia is a place with videos of japanese bands with translation lyric also )

 

[VmprHntrD]

Wow this blew up over some biases and totally unfounded beliefs by the topic starter. It's sorta known what kind of things the 3DS really has going for it under the hood from some sources about, so it really is hard to buy any of the initial post of having much reality to it. We know who is supplying the browser, we know they have a very capable nice browser in their latest format, and knowing what the 3DS can do, I'd imagine short of dumb licensing reasons why it couldn't do far better than what the DS or PSP browser could do and then some.

 

[kiba93]

when I see the "Schlappy" opera channel that we got on wii (no tabs, video file cannot de loaded, no downloadable contents, memory limitation), I don't think that an internet browser for 3DS is going to be any better

Of course this statement is just an opinion

 

[Fyrus]

Remember that Nintendo aren't using Opera anymore now.

 

[GeekyGuy]

Have they said what version of the NetFront browser they'll be implementing? Can we expect 4.1, or is that wishful thinking?

 

[Nollog]

I hope it has HTML5 and CSS3 built in. I'm a web developer and would love to create some 3DS ready websites.

lol, is CSS2 even widely supported yet?

 

[Slyakin]

If only we're able to access it after suspending a game. It'd be easier to look up guides.

If you read up about it, you'll find out that is part of the feature. Much like notes, friend-list, and notifications, the browser can run while games are suspended.

Which is what bothers me so much about this browser; If it's multitasking, it'll probably be severely limited and won't do jack-shit.

 

[Nollog]

If only we're able to access it after suspending a game. It'd be easier to look up guides.

If you read up about it, you'll find out that is part of the feature. Much like notes, friend-list, and notifications, the browser can run while games are suspended.

Which is what bothers me so much about this browser; If it's multitasking, it'll probably be severely limited and won't do jack-shit.

Your face won't do jack's shit either!

It's not supposed to be a full pc browser. It's to look things up quickly either in game or on jack's toilet.

 

[Rydian]

I hope it has HTML5 and CSS3 built in. I'm a web developer and would love to create some 3DS ready websites.

lol, is CSS2 even widely supported yet?

CSS2 was published in 1998 so any decent desktop browser works with it and AFAIK even the PSP's current browser does.

 

[Nollog]

I hope it has HTML5 and CSS3 built in. I'm a web developer and would love to create some 3DS ready websites.

lol, is CSS2 even widely supported yet?

CSS2 was published in 1998 so any decent desktop browser works with it and AFAIK even the PSP's current browser does.

yay!
iirc ms only started supporting css2 2 years ago, opera was sketchy, firefox was quirky.
So it only took like 10 years?
CSS3 is still in planning, as is html5, but webkit exists this time so maybe they'll be faster.

 

[Ssx9]

I'll make this short. In my opinion, it'll be decent, but I doubt it'll be something people will like it much, like the Wii's opera browser.

Again...

It's just my opinion.

 

[Hydreigon]

IMO, I don't think it will be that powerful. It will be convenient to search up a guide while you're playing a game though.