Nintendo has unveiled the specs of the upcoming Internet Browser for Wii U. The Nintendo Wii U Browser Specs (below) tells us that there is NO FLASH support. However you can use the Nintendo Wii U Browser on the Wii U Gamepad screen or pause a game, launch the browser to search something and then re-enter the game again at anytime.
Nintendo Wii U Browser Specs
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/SVG
Plug-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.)
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