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| JackP wrote: |
| Make sure to keep us informed Dan. Sometimes (in fact most times) I think game playability has gone downhill since my ZX Spectrum days.
*thinks* the sabre man series .... mmmm jetpac ... mmmm the dizzy series .... mmmm It's just not the same without POKEs, PEEKs, and the crashy lines up the side of your screen while a game's loading. |
Jetpac, now you're talking!! I loved my Daley Thompson's Decathlon, oh the rate of joysticks I used to go through...
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Sort of off-subject...
But anyone surfed with it? Think it was at Computer Arts, or maybe Sitepoint? Anyways a member mentioned having a customer look at the new web site over dinner using his Playstation PSP! It was just a side comment and for the fellow absolutely normal to surf with a game counsole during dinner.
This has made me re-consider "User Agents", seems like Nitendo's newest prtable is also net ready.
So how does it surf? How does your sites look? Most importantly ofr accessibility and usability... do we need to add a PSP style sheet to go with print and mobile sheets?
Anyone with experiance surfing with the thig?
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[size=9]Kyle J. Lamson
Analyst/Programmer III, State of Alaska
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| lsw wrote: |
| Sort of off-subject...
But anyone surfed with it? |
I believe the first software release doesn't feature a browser but some smart people figured out how to browse with it using a browser embedded in Wipeout Pure (?). Someone told me that an update will include a browser in the future. The Wipeout Pure browser requires a hack as far as I'm aware but from what I've seen it works pretty good. I just googled 'psp browser' to make sure I'm not having a memeory relapse and got got some interesting articles back.
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| JonTan wrote: |
| I believe the first software release doesn't feature a browser but some smart people figured out how to browse with it using a browser embedded in Wipeout Pure (?). Someone told me that an update will include a browser in the future. |
Any new PSP that comes with, or is upgraded to the 2.0 firmware will have a dedicated web browser included. I've checked out a few sites with it and it seems okay for basic browsing, but more advanced Javascript is flaky.
Also, the only font installed on the brower is the standard PSP font that you see when using the home menu, so any specified fonts are ignored.
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If you would like any specific psp information then you can get it here: http://www.pspzones.com
or the psp forums which are for all ages.
http://www.pspzones.com/forum/index.php
or email or pm me where I would be more than glad to help with all your issues.
If you don't like the current template then there are others to choose from including the default which is similar to these.
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Does look that way - can we check the IP addresses of the posts and take (or recommend) some action if necessary?
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changed my mind - it is coffee break after all
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Yesterday evening on German TV, a "TV Magazine" tested handhelds against a cheap Laptop.
PSP was a real winner. It reallyonly failed text work... you definetly do not want to send emails with it... the worst before PHP was almost 2 min. for a brief letter - PSP took 8 min! as has not keyboard.... course a experianced user would be Faster.
But they had no proplems with the test web sites, it plays movies better than all but the Laptop and gaming of course it was the best. Personally I think we can expect more people surfing with PSP - nor it would not seem that sites should have to much trouble with it. However I would like to see a real web test of it.
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[size=9]Kyle J. Lamson
Analyst/Programmer III, State of Alaska
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Read this before deciding to buy on-line this Christmas 
Mike Abbott
Accessible to everyone
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The browser in the PSP is a derived version of Access Netfront if that helps any.Web Developer, Kyan
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I did a bit of a precis here: http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/reference/psp/
I'm working on some JS games as well - turns out that of all the possible approaches, the CSS sprites technique works really well with it
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A few weeks ago (23rd September) a friend showed me screenshots of browsing my sites using a PSP. I dug around my HDD and found two of them. They were taken before I made some design tweaks, but it's useful to see how it handles certain things.
Homepage:
800 x 600, 71.1kB.
My layout uses percentage widths. Navigation is floated left and content is floated right. Here we see the <h2> heading for the navigation overflowing across into the content area. My navigation code is below my content code on this page, so it seems to give default z-indexes correctly.
GTA2 mission coding tutorial:
800 x 600, 82.0kB.
Here we see a <pre> element which is using overflow: hidden to prevent horizontal scrolling. A common trick with handheld devices is to use white-space: wrap in the handheld stylesheet media type to avoid this behavior. But, as Brothercake's excellent article shows, the PSP states itself as a full screen device. Which is fair enough.
Apparently, the blue tint of the screenshots is due to the view angle and the camera. In normal human use, colours are correct.
It generally seems like a Mozilla style of standards compliance as Firefox made that layout look about the same when it got small, apart from the handling of <pre> overflow.
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For those who might be interested I've had a GP2X for a few weeks and have posted a review on my blog.
Comments and questions are welcome there (or here).
Dan
Dan Champion, Champion IS, Mooch Marketing, Revish
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