HTML5 and gaming

Hopefully some day these 'apps' will all just be HTML applets, like Jobs originally wanted for the iPhone. They still aren't powerful enough, but the sure are getting there!
 
Gone are the days when all you could do with HTML was pictures and text. Seriously. I only played VII on that list (mainly for the description), but it's not bad. It could do with smoother animation and better responsiveness though. I only used Firefox 3.6.14. Maybe I should really get up to firing up Chrome again...
 
Bad luck for web game devs, now yet another platform to support. Guess they will need to get paid more

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@MarthinusSwart: On the contrary, they dont have to support any specific platforms, you can now choose the technology that suits you best or your project best. The same way you can choose C++/C/Java/Anything according to preference or requirements of the project on desktop.
 
Pirates love Daisies is awesome, just horrible load times in chrome (i guess in most browsers)
 
edg3 said:
@MarthinusSwart: On the contrary, they dont have to support any specific platforms, you can now choose the technology that suits you best or your project best. The same way you can choose C++/C/Java/Anything according to preference or requirements of the project on desktop.
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I meant platform in the sense of having to support flash and html5 now. Some browsers the flash experience might be better, on other the html5 will be better, so you will end up having to support both, but that is the nature of deveopment I guess

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Uhh, not really, flash requires a standalone player, which is different to needing a certain browser for one being better or worse, html5 requires a browser that supports it. You wont support one or other depending on the browser, but rather pick on of the 2 (for game development people will likely stick to flash due to everybody having flash, html5 is just "yet-another-way-to-do-the-same-thing" when it comes to the game development).
 
Some cool little games. Brain snackers is sorta buggy though. Cool article regardless!
 
That game VII is guaranteed to give you the Tetris effect after a few rounds!

Still, this is hardly HTML. It's JavaScript doing the work. And JavaScript is also imposing the drastic limit on performance.
 
It will certainly make for better online entertainment...
 
I wonder if Microsoft will now allow for web apps, especially XAML based ones that require silverlight, to be published directly into HTML5.
 
Replacing Flash with something that is an open standard will be the best thing ever in the long haul - the ability to write applications that can be run on any device with a standards compliant browser is going to really shake up the software market and then some. And it seems like HTML5/Javascript/CSS3 might finally be the able to deliver that.

But there is still along ways to go to reach that ideal. Specifically the people implementing browsers will have to find better ways to reach a common-ground - case in point the whole <video> and <audio> tag fiasco means that media support is now more fragmented than before!

Additionally, it's a bit sad that with all the progress in programming languages and development tools over the years, we'll now be ending up with Javascript (!!!) as the application development language..
 
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