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Yahoo optimizes site for the Wii browser

Published April 23rd, 2007 2:18 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

Yahoo Japan has optimized their search site for the Wii Opera-powered browser.

Wow… even huge companies like Yahoo are paying close attention to the Wii Internet Channel. Other big sites, such as StumbleUpon, have also taken notice of the Wii browser. This is great!

Since I’m not one of the lucky ones to own a Wii, I turned to Firefox and the Tamper Data extension to create the Wii screenshot of Yahoo below. However, for some reason the site is optimized for the Wii, but not for Firefox. It appears to be messed up a bit in Firefox. But that’s the best I’ve got at the moment.

Edit: Robin Zalek, a reader of Opera Watch, was kind enough to make a couple screenshots of Yahoo’s site on the Wii.

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Yahoo’s optimized site for the Wii browser

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Yahoo’s optimized site for the Wii browser

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  1. 1 Jonathan Apr 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    This is indeed great news and shows the increasing importance of Opera in web development.

  2. 2 Kelson Apr 23rd, 2007 at 5:57 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    On one hand, it’s great that sites are paying attention…but if they’re handing the Wii code that Firefox can’t display, it sounds like they’re doing more than just “optimizing” the site for the Wii.

    Isn’t having two versions of the site a step backwards?

  3. 3 Stahn Apr 23rd, 2007 at 10:56 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Just reporting that feed text is somewhat broken. (Characters like “‘” are being displayed as “???”)

  4. 4 Saito Apr 24th, 2007 at 12:50 am
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows 2000

    http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/yjsearchblog/46180264.html
    The above address is Yahoo! Search Staff blog’s entry, in Japanese.

    They say it is fully compatible with ‘10 feet UI’, larger fonts, buttons instead of letters, so on to fit to view several feet away from TV. If you prefer PC-like page, you can change it by pushing the buttons.
    Their Image Search is also useful for Wii users, its slide show works like as PC.

  5. 5 Muzammil Apr 24th, 2007 at 9:35 am
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    I guess the Wii Opera rendering engine must have advanced Ruby Annotation support, because from the looks of this thread, the desktop one has none.

    http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=53976

  6. 6 Daniel Goldman Apr 24th, 2007 at 10:00 am
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Stahn, which feed reader are you using?

  7. 7 Kelson Apr 25th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Linux Linux

    FWIW, the feed seems fine in Akregator on Linux, and in both Opera and Thunderbird on Windows XP.

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