Forum :: Programming :: HTML Client [Concept]

Basically did this ages ago because of a client thread hah, just wondering if anyone had any ideas how I could go about maybe trying to implement this in a PHP / HTML Web based client ? And whether it'd even be possible.. I know HTML5 has some animation support, but not all browsers support HTML5.. I just started this thread to gain some possible ideas I can look into really. Here's what I got so far: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11185926/Release%20EOclient/index.html

Screenies:

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If money doesn't grow on trees, then why do banks have branches?

Oh god, I almost slapped Sordie when she tried doing this.

There's so many problems getting it to work in more than one browser since they'll do stupid stuff like load things slightly differently, or ignore your right click hooks; and keyboard input, if even possible somehow, would be extremely clunky. Real-time games don't work well in browsers.

The menu looks great, but once you get past there it all goes down-hill.

I swear I remember some one else doing some thing like this not to long ago.. But I don't think they got very far.

(sausage posted before me lol)

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http://www.tsu.co/Deltro
https://www.reverbnation.com/deltro9

https://eoserv.net/forum/topic/17019&p=2 is where it started I think, but yeah I agree with sausage.. I've thought about how I would go about it but practically it wouldn't work as a platform for an MMORPG because of the implication of browser support :l but yeah as the thread suggests it is just a concept xD

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If money doesn't grow on trees, then why do banks have branches?

What I would do is if you are doing this, I would make a browser specificly for it. But that would kinda eliminate the point. I thought about making a little flash solo version before but i got bored cutting out the sprites.

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Andrewbob - I would be on the fucking copter of rofls

Programmer, Web Developer, and Graphics Designer

Looks great.

It's definitely possible. Don't listen to Sausage. The browser is the future platform upon which pretty much everything will run. With new technologies this stuff is largely becoming possible now, and it's the future.

For this type of thing you basically have two options: HTML5 or Native Client (NaCl).

Native Client, put simply, is a technology built into chrome that allows you to run sandboxed native code. You can run C++ in browser without compromising much speed (the benchmarks I've seen put native client code running only about 5-10% slower on chrome than it would in a desktop application). It's really impressive stuff, actually, and native client is just starting to pick up steam. Console quality games can now run in the browser, it's really impressive. Bastion is the best example (previously an xbox game) that I've seen so far. Check it out in the chrome web store ifyou like.

With native client you could develop a client in C++ to run in the browser. Doing this, though, will make your game only work in Chrome. (All the important people use chrome anyway, though.) Your other option, which you probably intended on using is HTML5.

With HTML5 you can take advantage of the canvas element. For networking you can take advantage of HTML5 WebSockets. These should be supported in most modern browsers: Chrome, FF (4+?), IE9+, etc.. (I know there was a security issue with the WebSocket protocol that some research team discovered and it caused some browsers to disable WebSockets by default, but I'm pretty sure this has already been fixed; it was a while ago).

It's definitely possible with new technologies, and although they might not be fully supported now I think it's a much better idea to develop for a platform that is starting to bloom and grow massively rather than one that is going to slowly die.

I started developing an HTML5 game engine (if you can call it that) a while back for fun. It was more like a weekend hack together just to mess around with canvas, but whatever. I even implemented basic networking support. It was an interesting proof of concept. Nothing amazing but it's pretty cool. You can walk around, spawn monsters and shit. You can check it out here: http://dev.rakuhana.org/CANVAS/wut/pc.php (networking is disabled since I don't keep the server running).

I'd say go for it, it would definitely be cool to see.

andrew tried to do a eo client in html but then failure

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Arcitex posted: (14th Jan 2012, 05:40 am)

It's definitely possible. Don't listen to Sausage. The browser is the future platform upon which pretty much everything will run. With new technologies this stuff is largely becoming possible now, and it's the future.

For this type of thing you basically have two options: HTML5 or Native Client (NaCl).

Native Client, put simply, is a technology built into chrome that allows you to run sandboxed native code. You can run C++ in browser without compromising much speed (the benchmarks I've seen put native client code running only about 5-10% slower on chrome than it would in a desktopapplication). It's really impressive stuff, actually, and native client is just starting to pick up steam. Console quality games can now run in the browser, it's really impressive. Bastion is the best example (previously an xbox game) that I've seen so far. Check it out in the chrome web storeifyou like.

With native client you could develop a client in C++ to run in the browser. Doing this, though, will make your game only work in Chrome. (All the important people use chrome anyway, though.) Your other option, which you probably intended on using is HTML5.

With HTML5 you can take advantage of the canvas element. For networking you can take advantage of HTML5 WebSockets. These should be supported in most modern browsers: Chrome, FF (4+?), IE9+, etc.. (I know there was a security issue with the WebSocket protocol that some research team discoveredand it caused some browsers to disable WebSockets by default, but I'm pretty sure this has already been fixed; it was a while ago).

It's definitely possible with new technologies, and although they might not be fully supported now I think it's a much better idea to develop for a platform that is starting to bloom and grow massively rather than one that is going to slowly die.

I started developing an HTML5 game engine (if you can call it that) a while back for fun. It was more like a weekend hack together just to mess around with canvas, but whatever. I even implemented basic networking support. It was an interesting proof of concept. Nothing amazing but it's prettycool. You can walk around, spawn monsters and shit. You can check it out here: http://dev.rakuhana.org/CANVAS/wut/pc.php (networking is disabled since I don't keep the server running).

I'd say go for it, it would definitely be cool to see.

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http://www.ctronic.ga
http://www.tsu.co/Deltro
https://www.reverbnation.com/deltro9

Is this going to be a release or something?

One word JAVA

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Whats Java got to do with this?

Pine posted: (14th Jan 2012, 11:19 am)

Whats Java got to do with this?

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Andrewbob - I would be on the fucking copter of rofls

Programmer, Web Developer, and Graphics Designer

Yeah Java or Flash. I haven't really looked at HTML5, but from what I saw of the game engine it could work. 

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Desmond posted: (14th Jan 2012, 11:09 am)

One word JAVA