sgstair Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 yet since firefox has all the USER made plug-ins you can personalize to limitless proportions with a great variety of options <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't be stupid, like firefox on DS would have user plugins?Firefox is far too slow, bloated, memory-intensive, and close-mindedly designed to work on a limited system like the DS. Opera is a great browser and I'm quite glad to see it used on the DS. -Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tssf Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 I for one hope someone will still work on a homebrewn browser. As good as Opera DS will be, it will not have Flash, Java or PDF support. You also can't play any music or what not downloaded from it..So, there's still room for a home brewn web browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sintax Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 What makes you think a homebrew browser would have that stuff? A browser by itself is pushing the DS's limits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davos1 Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 How is a browser pushing the limits? PointyRemote or Win2DS can already be used as a makeshift internet browser! Flash and PDF wont be that hard to implement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sintax Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Because those programs just recieve screenshots and request data from a server, so there's a computer in the middle doing all the work. Take that computer away and you leave all the work to the DS, which only has 4 MB of RAM. I know FireFox is a bad example, but it is using 24MB just viewing this page. There is a demo of a Flash interpreter out there for the DS which runs OK, but you'll never get that together with a browser for the functionality you want. Bottom line is that the DS really wasn't made for applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memyselfandi Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Well, the opera DS browser will use a ram extansion that will allow it to do more and with cards like the supercard or M3, we can do what the opera browser does AND more because we would have the 32MB ram and the storage capabilities! The opportunities are endless(not really ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord698 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 he does make a good point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davos1 Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 Exactly! The supercard, M3 and flashcards got 32MB of SRAM that the program can use! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord698 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) then how the applications of firefox could be toned down a bit, yet still be used, ending out using less RAM Edited February 20, 2006 by Warlord698 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fischju Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 ok. the ram gba cartridge is in the gba slot so you cant run homebrew with it inserted. most cf's or sd's arnt nearly fast enough to be used a ram if you convinced the browser that the official cart was inserted instead of your M3 or GBAMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord698 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 the M3 would be easier than the GBAMP since it has it's cooshy bit of ram on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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