A while back I had an idea that I think could work out very well for people interested in building homebrew applications. Would it maybe be possible for someone to create a "wrapper" of sorts that basically just allowed web apps to run - meaning HTML, CSS, Javascript, maybe PHP? If those languages were available, making homebrew apps for the Wii would be a breeze, and I don't think it'd be too overly hard to make the said wrapper (I'd do it myself if I had any clue how to develop for the Wii). Just wondering. Thanks!

C and C++ is better than all web languages. Of course using c is harder but it is more efficient . Web languages are memory intensive and really just used by people who want to be sandboxed. I doubt such a wrapper is possible. Have you tried the featurs of the wii opera browser?



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PHP has nothing to do with the client, it is a server side language. But besides that, there have been attempts to create homebrew internet browsers before, and nothing has come to fruition. It's quite a big task.

@sifar he doesn't want to create a internet browser. he wants a to create homebrew for the wii using javascript and php but there is no app framework /host on the wii that allows him to do that. It would be something like [wiibrew.org]

Yeah, so he basically wants to make an internet browser. Maybe minus the network part but other than that it is basically an internet browser that he is requesting.

@sifar yeah, true, but it could probably be a barebones javascript/php parser (no html, no html render engine, no interface, no flash lol). But then again if you know php/javascript why not learn c?

yeah its pointless. sorry @sl1ck, learn c or lua.