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Welcome to Wii V Guide. Do you have a good consistent link to content hosted on a reliable web site? This is an excellent place to post it and help the Wii community begin to explore all of the possibilities that the new Internet Channel and the Opera browser offer.
There will be some emerging standards for Wii web site development. I have many other obvious statements to make so stay tuned. Some of the first things have already happened, and were possibly the most obvious. The width for the layout is never over 800, and is usually 700 or less. The entire layout is aligned left, and there is very litle margin on the left or top of the page. It would be ok to center the layout since Opera understands most CSS ive seen as well as the CENTER tag. Based on my width test I think the maximum viewable area is 798px.
Always keep in mind that the Wiimote has a "2" button which eliminates the need to scroll left or right, and puts all of the content right on top of other content so its easy to browse from the TV. It toggles a command in Opera which appears to remove tables and some images and layout and probably a lot of CSS. It even takes IFRAMEs out and just puts the source of the frame directly on the page. It works beautifully for many web sites that were created by smart developers. MySpace looks like trash but YouTube is definitely manageable. This is important to remember because you may not necessarily have to develop your layout to any exact width or graphic standard, as long as it is easy to read and use from a couch seat. Your site could even have an instruction at the top for new visitors to hit the "2" button prior to viewing the page if they are on their Wii. If this Opera browser works like those that are on phones, then development for this sort of thing could be easily moved from phone web sites to Wii web sites to create a very dynamic layout for content.
Bugs: Im just going to start a list of bugs or things that don't work if one is designing a site specifically for the Wii. No detailed explanations yet. 1) Using //--> in SCRIPT tags or STYLE tags etc is not good -- it shows up on Opera. 2) If you're using a DOCTYPE definition like this:
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
you might disable certain style classes you've set.