Nintendo’s Wii U page has been updated with a bunch of different specs for the console’s web browser.
It’s been reconfirmed that plugins such as Flash won’t be supported. You also won’t be able to save/upload images or video through the browser.
The full list of specs – browser engine, user agent, codecs, and more – can be found below.
Browser Engine
– NetFront Browser NX v2.1
User agent
– Mozilla/5.0 (Nintendo WiiU) AppleWebKit/534.52 (KHTML, like Gecko) NX/{Version No} NintendoBrowser/{Version No}.US
Supported Protocols
– HTTP1.0/HTTP1.1/SSL3.0/TLS1.0/TLS1.1/TLS1.2
Web Standard
– HTML4.01/HTML5/XHTML1.1/CSS1/CSS2.1/CSS3. (partial functionality)
– DOM1-3/ECMAScript
– XMLHttpRequest/canvas/Video/Web Storage (partial functionality)
– Web Messaging/Server-Sent Events/Device Orientation/WOFF/SVGPlug-ins
– Does not support plug-ins, such as Adobe Flash.
TouchEvent
– The browser supports only one of these at a time: touchstart, touchend, touchmove, touchcancel
Screen resolution
– If it isn’t specified, width is 980px layout
– It is possible to specify width/height of the viewport within the HTML’s …, and specify scaling permission via user-scalable meta tags.
(e.g)Saving/upload of image/video
– Not supported
Video Format
– MP4, M3U8+TS(HTTPLiveStreaming) (Some videos may not be playable.)
Video Codec
– H.264 – MPEG-4 AVC Video (Some videos may not be playable.)
Audio Codec
– AAC – ISO/IEC 14496-3 MPEG-4 AAC (Some audio may not be playable.)
Thanks to Yben for the tip.
