the Wii browser meets Microcontent
I recently visited Simon's house for a poker night — tournament-style Texas Hold'em. Losers had to go downstairs to play Wii.
After I got bored coming last in Wii tennis, we fired up the Wii's web browser to see how it handled the much-loved microcontent wiki, TiddlyWiki. It's Opera, apparently, so we were cautiously optimistic.
Here's the results. Sorry about the terrible photography; I had to chose a slow shutter setting to get a good picture of the TV screen.
tiddlywiki.com:
Nice, huh.
The Wii browser has a zoom mode to actually read text:
Dropdowns etc worked fine:
To enter text on the Wii, you fiddle your pointer at a full screen keyboard:
MonkeyGTD alpha works nicely too:
A new project in MonkeyGTD. Here you can see the keyboard fading into view:
typing gets boring quickly..
Proof that the project's notes "tttt" went in. I wish I had've taken a zoomed in photo of this.
In summary:
- viewing worked perfectly
- didn't try to download (or save locally)
- couldn't upload to tiddlyspot (seemed like the password field wasn't being stored, or something)
Overall, I give the Wii browser a C+ for TiddlyWiki support. Saving to tiddlyspot would have pushed it up to a B at least..
3 comments:
It's Opera, apparently, so we were cautiously optimistic.
Why is that? Does Opera not work properly on TiddlyWiki? We use the same core code for all of our browsers (desktop, mobile, Wii, etc.).
Hi Daniel
The optimism came from the "Opera" part.. the caution came from the years of messing around with cross-browser incompatibilities. Plus, the Wii rocks so hard, I was kinda expecting something to suck eventually.
That night I did see a cat get smashed in the face with a Wii remote, but that only sucked for the cat (and her owner / face smasher). It was kinda funny for the rest of us.
It does a better job on MonkeyGTD alpha than IE.
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