Opera Browser

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This page is intended to give information about the Opera Browser included with the Wii.

The Opera Browser is based on the version 9 of Opera for desktops and was fully released on April 11, 2007.

1 Features
2 Key Codes
3 Interesting URLs
4 Notes
5 Easter Egg
6 See Also

[edit] Features

The Opera browser features many elements from its full desktop browser (version 9.0). Known working features are:

SVG graphics
Adobe Flash 7 (including videos embedded in Flash content)
PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP images
RSS and Atom feeds (the RSS feeds from this wiki aren't formatted correctly though, but the custom one I made for this webpage should work.)
JavaScript and AJAX
Acid2 test passed

Some features are missing such as Java support. Also editing large text fields is impossible (such as full wiki articles).

Opera have written an article about making Wii-friendly pages

[edit] Flash support

The initial version of Opera for the Nintendo Wii supports Adobe Flash version 7. Hopefully we will get an update to support the newest Flash versions. However, because Adobe's latest SDK for Flash is version 7, it seems unlikely we will get version 9 any time soon. (This comes straight from the Opera Wii community forums and was confirmed by an official developer).

The Flash player was vulnerable to the flv vulnerability and it is patched.

Information on adding Wiimote support to flash applications can be found here.

[edit] Acid2 Test

The test appears to pass except when scrolling on the page. This actually may be a non-issue as scrolling the image is not one of the requirements for passing the test. Since the browser is based on Opera 9, it makes sense it should pass.

[edit] SVG Exploit

There was a vulnerability in the SVG routines in the Beta of the Internet Channel where it crashed the browser (and possibly the Wii). This was fixed in the full version.

[edit] Key Codes

The key codes (returned in the Event object from an onKeyPress event in Javascript) are as follows:

Code	Button
169	Home
170	-
171	B
172	1
173	2
174	+
175	Up
176	Down
177	Right
178	Left

Mouse	Button
Left	A

http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=try_dom_event_keycode

[edit] Interesting URLs

Some interesting URLS and how Opera reacts to them. The About Opera page (see below) lists important information including the Build Number and Browser Identification String.

URL	Result in beta	Result in First full version
about:	About Opera
about:opera	About Opera
about:about	About Opera
opera:about	About Opera
about:blank	Blank Page
opera:blank	Blank Page
localhost	Blank Page
data:	Blank Page	access denied message
somesite.com:port	If port < 80 Invalid Address (Regardless of port status)
somesite.com:port	If port >=80 Blank Page or Page
help	Nothing Happens
file:	Nothing Happened	now goes to access denied message
news:	Nothing Happens
/	Invalid Address ( file://localhost/ )
\	Invalid Address ( file://localhost/ )
ssh: \| ftp:	Unsupported address type: "Protocol ssh not supported"
about:config	Invalid Address
opera:config	Invalid Address
/.	goes to slashdot