Yesterday, at Sony’s Gamers Day in San Francisco, Sony demonstrated the PlayStation 3’s web browser (which will be included free with the PS3), including the viewing of movie clips on YouTube. I am assuming that this means the PS3 browser has full Flash player capabilities.
I’ve done some quick googling but haven’t been able to find any details about the PS3 web browser (unlike the Wii’s browser, which is based on Opera). If it’s based on Mozilla (or some other existing, known browser source), it would make our jobs as web developers much easier. If not, it will be another platform to target, especially if the PS3 browser becomes a major player. I’m also curious about what version of Flash is running on it.
The PS3 browser is Mozilla based.
When using the PS3 browser, it is so much better if you get a USB keyboard and mouse. Apparently any will work.
actually it’s not mozilla-based, it’s from netfront. nice try on the spam link, by the way; i’ve removed it.
It is just yet another IE. It even reads its conditional comments (!). How sad is that?!
http://twitter.com/mwte/status/982329226
If it’s not too late.. This page has a lot to say about it and the netfornt capabilities http://www.design215.com/read.php?title=playstation%203%20browser%20specs
Old blog but might help if you haven’t already worked it out. Quote from blog “Its user agent string is cloaked, falsely reporting as Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 1.00).”
Cheers,
Namey
PS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFront also list PS3 as a device that’s using it.