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Re:Sony signs Google browser deal by axod on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @08:35AM (#797893)
It would be simply awesome if they can also get it on the playstation. The need there is really much greater.

The browser on the psp is based on netscape 4 or something, and has so many quirks it makes IE6 look sane.

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Re:Sony signs Google browser deal by robin_reala on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @08:39AM (#797897)
Access Netfront actually. It’s not an awful browser (better than IE6 in many ways :) ), but you’re right, it does have its quirks. Here’s a claimed spec sheet for what I believe is the latest version:

http://www.accessdevnet.com/index.php/Web-2.0/NetFront-Speci...

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Re:Sony signs Google browser deal by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @08:56AM (#797910)
They don't need Chrome, just Webkit. Who knows what's stopping them.
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Re:Sony signs Google browser deal by sp332 on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @10:56AM (#798099)
A faster javascript engine (v8) is nice for mobile devices, and who knows, maybe it's more portable to the Cell SPUs.
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Re:Sony signs Google browser deal by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @11:20AM (#798141)
I've never actually understood the thinking behind V8, particularly as it's original pitch seemed to include being directly targeted at X86 and yet Google was developing browsers for both the desktop and Android (mainly ARM-targeted).

They've added ARM now I believe but Apple obviously had SquirrelFish on the ARM chip for iPhone from wayback. Maybe they committed before it was obvious that SquirrelFish could lift some ideas from Lua and be competitive with what V8 was planning.

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Re:Sony signs Google browser deal by blasdel on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @03:48PM (#798727)
v8 isn't faster, smaller, or more portable -- it didn't even work on x86_64 until very recently!
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