Update for the Wii Internet Channel includes USB keyboard support
Published October 10th, 2007 12:32 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanA new version of the Internet Channel for the Nintendo Wii is out today. The Internet Channel is powered by Opera.
Among the new improvements and features are:
- Support for a USB keyboard, which will make typing much easier
- Ability to send web links to your ‘Wii friends’
- Copy and paste text from Webpages
- You could save an additional 9 favorites, bring it to a total of 56
- Widget support. Now you can download Opera Widgets, the same ones that work on the desktop, to the Wii. The widgets you could download include calendars, news readers, Internet radios and other applications.
This update is available as a free upgrade to existing Internet Channel users.
More information is available on Nintendo’s website and on the Opera for Nintendo product page.
(Opera on the Nintendo Wii Internet Channel)
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Nice update!
Will see if cyrillic fonts letter spacing is finally gone…
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More complete changelog:
1. Hardware keyboard integration including a few hardware keyboard navigational shortcuts
2. Send URL from Favorites and Page Information to Wii friends or email
3. Widgets on widgets.opera.com supported
4. Open URL in browser from messaging application
5. List of contributors from Nintendo and Opera on Help pages linked from Opera logo on Start Page
6. ERA Textwrap enabled in automatic zoom mode
7. Improved link highlighting with thinner blue outline border and pale blue inside shading.
8. Scrollbar in Settings, Page Information and Favorites screens
9. Easy correction of mistyped URL by clicking URL in error message
10. Zoom level indicator displayed when zoom reaches 100%
11. Edit URL in Page Information screen
12. Configuration of vertical scroll margin
13. Security: Always-present UI element (padlock/page info) to prevent chrome spoofing
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The Widget support is very good! Therefore have the widget site (http://widgets.opera.com/ ) new skin?
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Digg!
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Does it include spatial navigation so that browsing can be done with mostly/only keyboard?
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From my informal testing last night, some Opera keyboard shortcuts work, but many don’t. Someone should test it out more thoroughly and make a list of available shortcuts.
That said, I don’t think that most of the browsing can be done with keyboard exclusively.
I’m loving the widget support, by the way
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Lawrence, you should’ve posted the above comment with the Wii.
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How’s this?
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Just downloaded the upgrade and pluged in an old junk keyboard. Typing makes using the browser much easier. This should encourage grater use of the Wii for browsing.
Strange having to grab the Wiimote to enter!!!
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Just noticed Opera 9.30!
Does not improve my typing though - grater!!!
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Daniel: Just to clarify, “copy and paste” is limited to highlighting text on a page, clicking on the search button, and having that highlighted text automatically inserted into the search field.
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I like the fact when you zoom it tells you when the display is 100%
Back on the PC - someone wants to watch the telly.
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The Wii browser is incredible! If I didn’t have a PC, browsing on the Wii wouldn’t be all that bad.
Every new Opera release is exciting.
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i have a wireless keyboard. it works with wii messaging but not opera browser. can anyone help!
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Ignore my last post I have now sorted it out (hence the use of upper case letters as I type on my keyboard!). You have to go back to the wii shop and update the software by downloading the new version. Obvious really!
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Thank you junkeR I now have yet another browser for my collection. I wonder how I managed to miss Kazehakase, especially as its in the Ubuntu repositary - must be that I do not use Ubuntu very often, tend to use Vector or Sam, this tends to be Denises computer.
Just had a look through the Ubuntu repositary for any other browsers I have missed. I have added a Dutch TeleText reader to this machine, not that I read Dutch, or TeleText, but interesting to have. What always irritates me about the Ubuntu repositary is that it gives a poularity rating for each program - Opera only gets 1 star, FireFox 5 (not suprising as it is the default browser), but even the Dutch TeleText reader gets 3 - you are not telling me that a Dutch TeleText reader is a lot more popular that Opera! Strictly speaking Opera is not in the default depositary which I feel is a great shame.
On the subject of Kazehakase, it seems to be a very compitent browser. However, I can not find anywhere to stop it identifying itself as Netscape 5! I wondered if it might not be a better browser than FireFox in the Lintop computer - http://www.linutop.com - but previously it had struck me that Opera would be more suited to the Lintop than FireFox. As Lintop is a Linux machine they probably have gone for FireFox because it is a familiar name to the potential Windows customer.
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Previous post, posted on Ubuntu and nor Debian GNU/Linux as stated!
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Why do other browsers corectly identify Ubuntu, but not Opera on the blog?
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Some keyboard shortcuts for the Internet Channel are available at http://www.elsonandlarissa.com.nyud.net/wiikeyboard