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Guide to making Wii-friendly pages

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 Published June 4th, 2007 2:00 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

In the past months we’ve been seeing a slew of sites and applications developed with the Wii Opera browser in mind. One of the appealing aspects of the Wii browser for game developers is that it allows them to build games using Flash and simply host them on the web.

So if you’re developing for the Wii browser (or just want to make sure your site works well on the Wii), be sure to check out the new tutorial on how to make Wii-friendly pages on Dev.Opera. Of course, you should always test your sites in Opera, since all of Opera’s browsers (desktop, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, Opera on the Wii, etc) use the same rendering engine.

Tutorial: Making Wii-friendly pages

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  1. 1 IPB Jun 4th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows XP

    How about making a WII emulator? Like Opera Mini have.

  2. 2 cap Jun 5th, 2007 at 9:30 am
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Windows Windows 2000

    Big difference. Opera Mini uses servers to format the page. Wii doesn’t.

  3. 3 Kelson Jun 7th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.21 on Linux Linux

    A stand-alone emulator, or perhaps a “Display like Wii” mode in the desktop version, would still go a long way toward helping people test their sites.

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