WiiU Internet Browser - Extended Functionality

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The information in this thread is what Nintendo provided to further enhance your web projects on the WiiU, however this information has since been pulled from the internet so i took the liberty of tracking it down in the wayback machine and converting to Markdown for anyone that is looking to web design with a WiiU in mind.

Internet Browser - Extended Functionality

With the Wii U Internet Browser, by using specialized JavaScript, it is possible to obtain button states of the GamePad or controlling how video and images (JPEG) are displayed.

Sample page to obtain values from the Wii U GamePad. - Wii U Internet Browser required

Nintendo provides this information as a courtesy and does not offer support on this extension function.

Developer Mode

This feature available is for Wii U System version 4.0.0U and above

Change user agent:

Changes can be made from the Wii U console's Internet Browser > Start Page > Settings.

Enable developer tools:

The developer tools can be enabled from the Wii U console's Internet Browser> Start Page > Settings.

Once enabled, you can use a browser on a PC on the same local network to inspect the code of any web page.

The developer tools work with Chrome [ver.30.0.1599.101m] and Safari [ver.6.0.3] and above.

Changing the user agent and enabling developer tools will be disabled once the Wii U console's Internet Browser is closed.

Enhanced Video Playback Function

Embedded play (inline) on a webpage:

The Wii U console's Internet Browser generally plays video full screen. However, if text, pictures or other elements need to be included with the video while it plays, embedding an inline video player can be done on the page by using the methods below.

Insert "webkit-playsinline" into the video tag.

Example: < video webkit-playsinline controls >
While holding down on a video tag the option "Play video on web page" from the menu will be displayed.
- This button is only enabled when a video tag is found.

Please note that, since September 30, 2013, embedded inline video play can only be done on updated systems.

Suppression of autoplay:

Since the Wii U console's Internet Browser is unable to play 2 or more videos simultaneously, autoplay is suppressed. Suppression conditions are as follows.

Video tag autoplay elements
Play () order by operation of non-user using JavaScript timer etc.

Using +Control Pad buttons to focus

Focus movement rule:

Focus moves to the first element found (anchor element link, tab index, etc.) when moving in the direction of the +Control Pad button pressed. If no element is found in that direction, focus is not moved, but scrolls for a determined quantity.

Control method:

You can call up a "preventDefault" method for the target element node's "keydown" event, or hide focus by returning "false".

window.wiiu. gamepad Object

Method

Method Name	Parameters	Return Value	Description
update()	None	GamePad State Object	Get information on the current state of the GamePad. An object holding that information will be returned.

Properties

Name	Description
isEnabled	Return 1 if the GamePad is connected.
isDataValid	Return 1 if the data stored in the object is valid.
tpTouch	Return 1 if the touchscreen is currently being touched.
tpValidity	Depending on the validity of the touch position data (contentX, contentY), the following values are assigned. Both X and Y coordinates are valid: 0 X coordinate is invalid: 1 Y coordinate is invalid: 2 Both X and Y coordinates are invalid: 3
contentX contentY	With the upper left of the content being the origin (0, 0), this value represents the touch position within the content area. The value has a range of 0 ≤ contentX < Content Width, 0 ≤ contentY < Content Height. If for example, the touch event occured on the address bar, or anywhere else outside the area of the content, the value will indicate it was out of range.
lStickX lStickY	This represents the tilt direction of the left stick. The value range is -1.0 ≤ lStickX ≤ +1.0, -1.0 ≤ lStickY ≤ +1.0. The Up and Right direction represents a positive value.
rStickX rStickY	This represents the tilt direction of the right stick. The value range is -1.0 ≤ rStickX ≤ +1.0, -1.0 ≤ rStickY ≤ +1.0. The Up and Right direction represents a positive value.
hold	While a button is held down, the flag for that button will be set. Multiple buttons that are held down can be detected by looking for that particular flag. See Button Flags Table.
accX accY accZ	Represents the accelerometer values. X value points in the left direction of the GamePad screen Y value is the front side of the GamePad screen Z value is coming out from the top face of the GamePad These are all in the positive direction and the values are fractional value with 1G being +1.0.
gyroX gyroY gyroZ	Represents gyrosensor (angular speed) values. Referencing the same axes of the accelerometer, positive values indicate a clockwise rotation with 360 dps (degrees per second) being 1.0.
angleX angleY angleZ	Represents the amount of rotation for each axis, which is calculated from the gyrosensor value.
dirXx dirXy dirXz dirYx dirYy dirYz dirZx dirZy dirZz	A 3x3 matrix representing the 3 dimensional orientation of the GamePad.

Button Flags Table

Input	Flag
+Control Pad - UP	0x00000200
+Control Pad - DOWN	0x00000100
+Control Pad - LEFT	0x00000800
+Control Pad - RIGHT	0x00000400
A button	0x00008000
B button	0x00004000
X button	0x00002000
Y button	0x00001000
L button	0x00000020
R button	0x00000010
ZL button	0x00000080
ZR button	0x00000040
- button	0x00000004
+ button	0x00000008
LStick - UP	0x10000000
LStick - DOWN	0x08000000
LStick - LEFT	0x40000000
LStick - RIGHT	0x20000000
RStick - UP	0x01000000
RStick - DOWN	0x00800000
RStick - LEFT	0x04000000
RStick - RIGHT	0x02000000
LStick Button	0x00040000
RStick Button	0x00020000

window.wiiu.videoplayer Object

Method

Method name	Parameters	Return Value	Description
end()	None	Success or failure (Boolean)	Terminate the video player

Property

Name	Description
viewMode	The following integers are used to describe the state of GamePad display while a video is playing back. Video playback screen: 0 Browser screen: 1 Also, by changing this value, it is possible change the GamePad state while video is being played back.

Related Events

Name	Description
wiiu_videoplayer_end	Call to terminate video player.

window.wiiu.imageview Object

Methods

Method Name	Parameters	Return Value	Description
end()	None	Success or failure (Boolean)	Terminate the image viewer
getErrorCode()	None	Error Code (Number)	Returns the error code of the most recent error that occurred. If no error has occurred, it will return -1.

Property

Name	Description
viewMode	The following integers are used to describe the state of GamePad display while an image is being viewed. Image viewer screen: 0 Browser screen: 1 Also, by changing this value, it is possible change the GamePad state while an image is being viewed.

Error Code Table

Number	Description
202	Unsupported format
202	Either the width or height of the image is too large
204	The file size of the image is too large
205	The image is a progressive format JPEG and the pixel count is too large

Related Events

Name	Description
wiiu_imageview_start	Call to start image viewer.
wiiu_imageview_end	Call to terminate image viewer.
wiiu_imageview_change_viewmode	Call to change image viewer display mode.
wiiu_imageview_change_content	Call to change image viewer content.
wiiu_imageview_error	Call when there is an error with the image viewer.

Key codes obtained from KeyEvents on Wii U GamePad

Key	Code
+Control Pad - UP	38
+Control Pad - DOWN	40
+Control Pad - LEFT	37
+Control Pad - RIGHT	39
A Button	13

kaloncpu57

How do you send commands in the console on the Web Inspector page?

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@kaloncpu57 I don't think u can, but there might be a way that hasnt been discovered or unless u mod your console

kaloncpu57

@AwesomeKoala89 Hmm really seems like there would be a way, considering you can type into the console like any other console. Wonder if the functionality is there, but the enter key starting a new line was just overlooked. Maybe I'll spend time digging through the page to find anything that tries to send stuff from the console.

Thanks for the answer though, at least I'm not alone on this lol

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@kaloncpu57 Ok, and yw