ajax everywhere

Just got an official reply from a Wii engineer that there are currently no plans to support 3rd party applications for the embedded Opera browser. Yikes.

I’m still taking the response with a pinch of salt. After all, unless Wii stops you from browsing the web altogether, it is just a matter of time before developers start posting queries to either Opera or Nintendo about it’s browser support. I’m guessing the engineer’s stance had more to do with installed browser applications.

A few other implications:

• Does this mean Opera widgets won’t be supported?
• Will AJAX be supported?

More details will be posted as they are made available.

Core components & libraries for ajaxTV

• MVC Object Framework
  Optional XML-based framework for applications
  Includes packager for standalone applications
• Core libraries
  XML Parser
  AJAX operations
  DOM operations
• Browser/Hardware-specific libraries
  Hardware connection functions
  Browser API connection
• Effects Library
  Shortcuts for commonly used effects
  Interaction with multimedia components
• Live IDE/Debugger
  Unit testing libaries

The core of ajaxTV will be a pure Javascript-driven MVC framework, implemented as the ajaxTV_MVC Prototype Object. Features of this object include:

• XML declaration of states and worflow
• Method to preload environment variables
• Error handling object

ajaxTV_MVC will enable the developer to abstract his application into a series states, pointing to simple presentation pages or other Javascript objects to fire. This allows for the easy development of standalone client applications that need not interface with hardware specific calls to simulate dynamic behaviour in an application (Obviously, you can still do this if you want to).