Players can also tilt the GamePad to scroll through pages, and the console will remember the name of paused games to help with search queries.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/31760
The built-in webkit-based internet browser for Nintendo's upcoming Wii U system will have a host of new features, including HTML5 support, Nintendo revealed last Thursday during a Japanese Nintendo Direct that aired simultaneously with the North American Wii U Preview Event. HTML5 is an up and coming web standard that is slowly being adopted by the latest browsers and websites. For example, Youtube (which Nintendo made sure to feature support for in their video demonstration) has an experimental HTML5 version for users with browsers that support it and the necessary video codecs.
However, this HTML5 support is contrasted by the Wii U browser's lack of support for Flash, the latest versions of which are also not supported in the Wii, DS, DSi, or 3DS browsers.
Nintendo also revealed that when players pause their Wii U games and access their internet browser, they will have access to images of the tv and GamePad displays from that paused game. Player-created game screenshots are already known to be used in Nintendo's MiiVerse functonality. However, many details regarding using and saving the images are still unknown.
When users pause a game and access the internet browser, the software will remember the paused game's name and prepopulate search queries with it to help users look for relevant information.
Nintendo also showed video footage of other features of the browser, like tabbed browsing that lets users keep track of several web pages at the same time. The video shows another multitasking scenario where a Youtube video is opened to play on the TV screen, but the GamePad continues to browse the internet as usual even while the video continues to play. One final example is that Wii U owners can simply just browse the internet on their GamePad while the television displays regular programming.
Gamers can even simply tilt the GamePad forward or backward to automatically scroll up and down through long web pages.
Nintendo called the Wii U Browser the quickest browser in Nintendo history. Stay with Nintendo World Report as the Wii U's launch approaches in multiple territories and those claims are put to the test.
Flash is an outdated, bloated tech that is on its way out. It's main use is on the PC, and very few mobile devices support it. HTML5 is the future, and I'm glad that Nintendo is taking advantage of it.
so for the first time Nintendo is taking a page from the Sony playbook. Sony would usually say "buy our system even if you don't use it for games it still plays DVD's.. the PS3 also plays Blu-rays" well now Nintendo seems to be saying "buy our system it comes with a built in iPad, even if you don't buy our games at least you can have fun with our iPad!" hmmm, hope it works!Nintendo wants people to use the Wii U at home even if they aren't playing video games which makes sense because it might lead them back to playing a video game and if the Wii U is already on, that's as good a place as any to start. That said, it's a bit puzzling that Nintendo would leave would DVD/Blu Ray playback. Granted, I watch most movies on Netflix now, but Nintendo is giving me a reason to use a different product. Unfortunately for them, it just so happens to be a PS3 which is my de facto video playing device for streaming and physical media.
This is something I've actually wondered about all the consoles & handhelds, but do people actually use the things to browse the internet or do people want them just to have them? :confused;
I really just don't understand why you would without a proper keyboard for text input, and the browsers are usually terrible anyway (the PS3's especially is pretty much unusable).
This is something I've actually wondered about all the consoles & handhelds, but do people actually use the things to browse the internet or do people want them just to have them? :confused; I really just don't understand why you would without a proper keyboard for text input, and the browsers are usually terrible anyway (the PS3's especially is pretty much unusable).I broke my leg and my old PC broke the same evening.
If Adobe doesn't open source Flash then ultimately it will fade away. Proprietary web standards have no place in the 2010s. Flash is an ancient proprietary dinosaur that belongs back in the 2000s or 1990s where it came from.
Javascript can easily bog down a small CPU. I'm not sure if the tablet would have to do any heavy lifting, but I would guess so since you can browse with it while doing something else with the TV.The tablet doesn't do processing, the console does it and just streams the image to the tablet.
Hehe, maybe someday, someone will make a HTML5 player that plays Flash movies!