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[jbullfrog]

1)Is there a web browser in development?   :?:
2)Could anyone in this forum develop one? :shock:
3)What do you need in order for a web browser to work on the DS? :roll:


4)This is something random.... :D

Does anyone know any colleges that offer video game programming as a major?

[NT]

I can see a version of lynx for DSLinux happening.

[Himura]

It would be a very difficult thing to do... but I think it can be done. Give it a year or two. It'll happen.

[MAD2X]

I hope it will happend someday, that's by far the feature I would like to see most on my DS. The touchscreen could make it so easy to browse... If moonshell could implement it, that would be sweet.

[DeVS]

Dont hold your breath. A web browser is ahrd thing to do. Everyone has been crying for one for a few years for the XboX and there still isnt one.

[MAD2X]

Never heard of LinksBoks? I've been using it for ages, it's not perfect but it works good, http://ysbox.online.fr/.

[exzapel]

bitspace.dyndns.org:6560 has XBMC with links integrated.

[bitblt]

Anyone remember web browsers runnung on 386s?  There will definitley be a web browser for DS, garanteed.  Probably real soon now that the homebrew WIFI stuff is working.  I wouldn't be suprised if Nintendo even offered one.  Don't expect the browser to support Java and ActiveX  though :lol:  My guess is it will work as well as any PocketPC browser.  Hmmmm....   :idea:  I bet some homebrew PocketPC (not IE) browser could be ported with minimal effort?

[bitblt]

Yep . . . google found at least 1 opensource browser called minimo for PocketPC.  Now who feels so inclined to get the credit for making the web browser poert for DS?  Hurry up, I'm waiting.   :wink:

[wgz4life]

I would gladly like to port a browser to the DS, but I never coded anything in my life, so I cant.  I start taking programing class in about a year.

[bitblt]

MiniMo requires 32MB of RAM to operate, as it is a modern web standards complaint browser.  For this browser to work on the DS, it would require using CF/SD memory as a virtual RAM drive.  MiniMo does target ARM processors but typically runs on faster StrongARM processors, so it would run rather slow on the DS.  (Why didn't Nintendo use a faster ARM processor  :roll: ) Perhaps the minimo source could be striped down to make a DS optimized version with reduced rendering features.

[Lazybones]

MiniMo or lynx would probably fit.

I hope someone figures out the whole using SC card ram thing.  Just think about it, if the browser filled both windows it would provide a rather good vertical view of webpages.

[bitblt]

Yep, but don't forget only one screen will allow touch-screen access to hyperlinks.  So an alternate mode might render HTML content on the top screen, and have users control, navigation, zoom, favorites, etc. on the second screen.  Then one could (L button) togle the two screens back and forth to the touch screen.

[quimbydogg]

Dont hold your breath. A web browser is ahrd thing to do. Everyone has been crying for one for a few years for the XboX and there still isnt one.

Web browsers are actually incredibly simple to make.  There is about 3 lines of code to send as part of the HTTP protocol to download the html information.  All you need besides that is the libraries for how to display the HTML code.  I coded a simple browser in Java within my first year of learning the language for a networks class.

The hardest part in this case is figuring out all the network coding unique to the DS, how to open up a socket connection and send the packets etc... but this is going to be a common issue for any wifi application.  Once the API gets figured out it will be cake.

[Overdrive_X]

Maybe waiting for a complete TCP-IP protocol for Nintendo DS will be a good start.