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The <b>Internet Browser</b> is a web browser preloaded on the Wii U. It uses a version of NetFront based on the WebKit rendering engine.
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<b>Internet Browser</b> is a web browser preloaded on the Wii U. It is based on NetFront Browser NX v2.1, which uses the WebKit rendering engine.
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== Known User Agent Strings ==
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! Region
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! Release Date
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! UA String
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| US
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| Nov 18, 2012
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| Mozilla/5.0 (Nintendo WiiU) AppleWebKit/534.52 (KHTML, like Gecko) NX/2.1.0.8.21 NintendoBrowser/1.0.0.7494.US
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| EU
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| Nov 30, 2012
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| <b>TODO</b>
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| AU
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| Nov 30, 2012
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| <b>TODO</b>
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| JP
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| Dec 8, 2012
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| <b>TODO</b>
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|}
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== Multimedia Support ==
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Internet Browser supports HTML5 audio and video. The only video format supported is H.264 either in an MPEG-4 container or in an MPEG-2 transport stream with a M3U8 index according to the HTTP Live Streaming specification. The only audio format supported is AAC in an MPEG-4 container.
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The browser can display BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, and SVG images, but Image Preview mode only supports JPEG images.
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Other HTML5 features supported include canvas, web storage, web messaging, server-sent events, device orientation, and WOFF.
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External plugins, such as Flash and Java, are not supported.
== Controls ==
== Controls ==
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Under normal circumstances, the Internet Browser uses the following controls:
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Under normal circumstances, Internet Browser uses the following controls:
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== Wii U Scripting Functionality ==
== Wii U Scripting Functionality ==
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In addition to W3C standard touch screen functionality, the Internet Browser exposes many Wii U input and output functions to Javascript through the <tt>wiiu</tt> object.
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In addition to W3C standard touch screen functionality, Internet Browser exposes many Wii U input and output functions to Javascript through the <tt>wiiu</tt> object.
=== wiiu.gamepad ===
=== wiiu.gamepad ===