PSP's new browser

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m3mn0n
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PSP's new browser

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A software update for the PSP came out recently and it included a built-in web browser. So as long as you got a wireless network you can access the internet with the device. And not just those custom built sites for the mini browser in cell phones, it's actual full size sites. It's very cool.

My sites for the most part works on it great. But after a week or so of playing around with this browser I've noticed a couple things that I thought you guys wouldn't mind knowing if you ever think about making a site for it:

-It has good navigation, as described here
-Downloading sites feels as though you're on a connection slightly faster than dial up (depending on how many images that page contains)
-Ideal page width is 480 (though is has aspect ratio adjustment so a site made for 1024 can still be seen properly with a little bit of scrolling)
-It seems that it does not handle PNG images well (which make up a bulk of my site's images...ugh).
-Only a selected few JavaScript functions work (eg. onmouseover()/onmouseout() work while onclick() does not)
-File uploading works
-Tabbed browsing works great, you can have up to 3 tabs
-I've yet to test its XML/CSS2 processing skills but from a friend I heard it was fine (though I wouldn't take his word for it =P)

Hopefully newer versions of the browser fix the issues that I brought up and hopefully it'll get more developer friendly as time goes on. It'd really like to see it transition from an IE 5-like browser to a Firefox-like browser within the coming years. :)

Anyway, here is a couple pictures showing my game site and two shots from inside the game:
http://www.wgamezone.com/images/promonpsp.png
http://www.wgamezone.com/images/promonpsp2.png
http://www.wgamezone.com/images/promonpsp3.png
Last edited by m3mn0n on Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:48 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Post by anjanesh »

Strange - the images dont show unless I copy-paste the image locations myself and view them separately in 3 tabs of my browser. Then when I refresh the thread the images show - from cache ?
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ah yes, I believe I have hotlinking prevention activated. I'll turn them into links. :)
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Post by onion2k »

Nice, but my PSP is staying on the 1.5 firmware coz I play Mario using zsnes.
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Yeah, the new version (even 1.52 I think it was) prevented people from using emulators so they can't play Mario, Zelda, Sonic, and etc.

But I hear new games will require the 2.0 update so it's a trade off. Give up the"homebrews" or give up the new titles and all the new functionality of 2.0. Personally I'd rather get the update, but that's just me. ;)
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Sami wrote:Yeah, the new version (even 1.52 I think it was) prevented people from using emulators so they can't play Mario, Zelda, Sonic, and etc.

But I hear new games will require the 2.0 update so it's a trade off. Give up the"homebrews" or give up the new titles and all the new functionality of 2.0. Personally I'd rather get the update, but that's just me. ;)
There's a program called WAB that tricks games into thinking you've upgraded when you haven't. Homebrew and new games aplenty!
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Oh neat! I'll be googling that for sure. :)
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