Internet idea

[captain_duck]

Its not like sgstair did all his work just so someone could make a browser. Hell no its for tons of things like internet playable homebrew games, or internet chat, and those remote access programs (or he just did it for the bounty )

 

And about buying it, well. The browser will most likely be released on a normal cart just like a game. And so it will probably dumped as a rom the day it comes out.

[BlueBlue]

Well, it is also supposed to come with additional memory for the gba slot.

[Warlord698]

that would have to be a big must, watch somebody patch after it comes out where you can use a GBAMP or whatever for the mem after that up to 8GB of space

Edited February 17, 2006 by Warlord698

[davos1]

But I think the Opera browser will be crap!

[Warlord698]

though it's better than nothing isn't it

 

God knows I would die to have Firefox on it instead

[captain_duck]

The opera browser will rock. Opera has allways been just as good, if not better then firefox, and they have MUCH more experience programming for small-display devices like telephones and PDA's. Were really lucky that opera is building the browser

[Warlord698]

yet since firefox has all the USER made plug-ins you can personalize to limitless proportions with a great variety of options

Edited February 18, 2006 by Warlord698

[sgstair]

yet since firefox has all the USER made plug-ins you can personalize to limitless proportions with a great variety of options

 

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Don't be stupid, like firefox on DS would have user plugins?

Firefox is far too slow, bloated, memory-intensive, and close-mindedly designed to work on a limited system like the DS. Opera is a great browser and I'm quite glad to see it used on the DS.

 

-Stephen

[tssf]

I for one hope someone will still work on a homebrewn browser. As good as Opera DS will be, it will not have Flash, Java or PDF support. You also can't play any music or what not downloaded from it..So, there's still room for a home brewn web browser.

[Sintax]

What makes you think a homebrew browser would have that stuff? A browser by itself is pushing the DS's limits.

[davos1]

How is a browser pushing the limits? PointyRemote or Win2DS can already be used as a makeshift internet browser! Flash and PDF wont be that hard to implement!

[Sintax]

Because those programs just recieve screenshots and request data from a server, so there's a computer in the middle doing all the work. Take that computer away and you leave all the work to the DS, which only has 4 MB of RAM. I know FireFox is a bad example, but it is using 24MB just viewing this page. There is a demo of a Flash interpreter out there for the DS which runs OK, but you'll never get that together with a browser for the functionality you want. Bottom line is that the DS really wasn't made for applications.

[memyselfandi]

Well, the opera DS browser will use a ram extansion that will allow it to do more and with cards like the supercard or M3, we can do what the opera browser does AND more because we would have the 32MB ram and the storage capabilities! The opportunities are endless(not really )

[Warlord698]

he does make a good point

[davos1]

Exactly! The supercard, M3 and flashcards got 32MB of SRAM that the program can use!