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It would be simply awesome if they can also get it on the playstation. The need there is really much greater. The browser on the psp is based on netscape 4 or
by axod 17y ago
It would be simply awesome if they can also get it on the playstation. The need there is really much greater.
The browser on the psp is based on netscape 4 or something, and has so many quirks it makes IE6 look sane.
- robin_reala 17y agoAccess Netfront actually. It’s not an awful browser (better than IE6 in many ways :) ), but you’re right, it does have its quirks. Here’s a claimed spec sheet for what I believe is the latest version: http://www.accessdevnet.com/index.php/Web-2.0/NetFront-Specifications.html http://www.accessdevnet.com/index.php/Web-2.0/NetFront-Speci...
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoThey don't need Chrome, just Webkit. Who knows what's stopping them.
- sp332 17y agoA faster javascript engine (v8) is nice for mobile devices, and who knows, maybe it's more portable to the Cell SPUs.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoI've never actually understood the thinking behind V8, particularly as it's original pitch seemed to include being directly targeted at X86 and yet Google was developing browsers for both the desktop and Android (mainly ARM-targeted). They've added ARM now I believe but Apple obviously had SquirrelFish on the ARM chip for iPhone from wayback. Maybe they committed before it was obvious that SquirrelFish could lift some ideas from Lua and be competitive with what V8 was planning.
- blasdel 17y agov8 isn't faster, smaller, or more portable -- it didn't even work on x86_64 until very recently!