Feel free to gloat Jeff
As some of you know, Ogre refuses to get with the rest of the world and use Firefox, preferring his Opera browser. I used Opera before Firefox came out and admit that it was very good, but I prefer Firefox now for various reasons that I can't even really define. The clunkiness of Opera's linux version (at least when I last tried it out) was probably a big factor.
At any rate, it's time for Opera to get some back here, because I just found out that they've released a browser for the Nintendo DS. It's (of course) only available in Japan for the time being but it will come out in the US in not too long and that's gonna be pretty cool. According the the Wired article I read about it (other note I signed up for a years subscription to Wired and it cost me all of ten bucks) there are some video demos floating around and it looks like they did a pretty solid job of working with the DS interface in a way that actually makes sense. I'm stoked about it, because the idea of having the intarwebs without lugging a laptop, pretending a cell phone web browser is actually usable, or buying one of those awful sidekicks (complete with useless T-Mobile or whatever) is rather awesome.
At any rate, it's time for Opera to get some back here, because I just found out that they've released a browser for the Nintendo DS. It's (of course) only available in Japan for the time being but it will come out in the US in not too long and that's gonna be pretty cool. According the the Wired article I read about it (other note I signed up for a years subscription to Wired and it cost me all of ten bucks) there are some video demos floating around and it looks like they did a pretty solid job of working with the DS interface in a way that actually makes sense. I'm stoked about it, because the idea of having the intarwebs without lugging a laptop, pretending a cell phone web browser is actually usable, or buying one of those awful sidekicks (complete with useless T-Mobile or whatever) is rather awesome.
posted by SomeJerk at 11:54 AM
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It's not that I refuse to switch to Firefox, I just don't see anything that would benefit me by switching.
Anyway, Opera will also be on the Wii. I think they've madegood business moves.
Yea I know what you mean. Honestly if I hadn't switched to Linux and been horrified by the version of Opera that was available at the time, I'd probably feel the same way.
For your reading pleasure.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152499
That's an interesting article; although it seems like the author had good points but was trying to hard to make the post newsworthy by taking an extreme tack on everything. I mean it's a little odd that he was acting like he expected a Gameboy to render complex multimedia sites well, but at least he wasn't fawning over it like a fanboy. I still think I'm gonna try it out if they don't want $50 for it.
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