Comments on: Yahoo optimizes site for the Wii browser

By: Kelson

Kelson — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:57:18 +0000

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

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:00:04 +0000

Stahn, which feed reader are you using?

By: Muzammil

Muzammil — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:35:15 +0000

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

By: Saito

Saito — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:50:22 +0000

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.

By: Stahn

Stahn — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:56:59 +0000

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

By: Kelson

Kelson — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:57:29 +0000

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?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:40:29 +0000

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