NXE – Themes 2.0 and Friends Channel Options

[johnnyrico]

You really want IE7 on the 360? Yah no thx.....

dude, no lol.
I want something well locked-down, no plugins allowed(we don't want the bonzibuddy on our 360 eh ), built-in flash and silverlight player and such.
it would make the 360 a much more powerful platform.

besides, IE7 isn't so bad, IE5 and 6 were monsters but with 7 Microsoft put IE back on the map.
not that I use IE7 though, I like Firefox' add-on flexibility too much.

This post has been edited by johnnyrico: Sep 27 2008, 10:50 PM

[MrFish]

dude, no lol.
I want something well locked-down, no plugins allowed

If it's sandboxed (like every other app on the whole entire platform), plugins won't matter.

Break your browser? Just reboot and remove the plugin.

Anyhoo, the Wii has a decent browser. Shame Microsoft only copied the crap bits of the Wii.

[johnnyrico]

If it's sandboxed (like every other app on the whole entire platform), plugins won't matter.

Break your browser? Just reboot and remove the plugin.

Anyhoo, the Wii has a decent browser. Shame Microsoft only copied the crap bits of the Wii.

precisely, sandboxed, the browser should only get RAM access or perhaps very limited HDD access, only to a sort of paging file and no ability do download files other than the webpages themselves.
heck, if one dedicated person can make a browser like Linksbox, how couldn't MS make a simple, light browser for the 360 that doesn't have ridiculous amounts of security leaks?

This post has been edited by johnnyrico: Sep 29 2008, 09:48 PM

[hamwbone]

then once the browser comes out all we will here is whining about how it doesnt play flash, how java does work, why cant i ftp to my wii, i cant read the text, blah blah blah........

[johnnyrico]

then once the browser comes out all we will here is whining about how it doesnt play flash, how java does work, why cant i ftp to my wii, i cant read the text, blah blah blah........

lol, then I'll tell them: you want to play flash stuff and visit sites that are unprofessionally made in flash, get a gorram computer or hack your 360 for linux
for the browser, I just mean: if they integrate Windows Live Messenger in the dashboard, why not windows Live Mail or even a darn browser too?

[MrFish]

precisely, sandboxed, the browser should only get RAM access or perhaps very limited HDD access, only to a sort of paging file and no ability do download files other than the webpages themselves.

Every app on the whole entire platform is already sandboxed from every other. The worst, crappiest, buggiest web browser in the world could no more mess up your Halo saves than you could factor a 4096-bit number.

heck, if one dedicated person can make a browser like Linksbox, how couldn't MS make a simple, light browser for the 360 that doesn't have ridiculous amounts of security leaks?

Linksbox is a port of links, which has a list of authors and contributors over five pages long. All that 'one dedicated person' did was make an XDK port of the win32 version. Which is a lot of work, but is orders of magnitude short of a whole entire web browser.