I'm completely excited about everything that's happening in the html5 ecosystem.
It's been a plateau for the last 10 years, even with the buzzwords that have come and gone, not a lot of what I saw impressed me, and now it seems like all of a sudden, like you've walked round a corner and discovered some completely fucking mind blowing sight.
So brilliant that many of the things we have been trying to do but having to wrestle with the platform to achieve, are now supported and standardised.
Where are the 3D graphics processed? They keep throwing around the 'websockets' term as if they are piping the graphics over ip, but using webgl would seem to indicate the graphics are being generated in the users GPU.
Quake 2 is so old that it had a software renderer as well as support for 3d graphics cards. So they might just run everything in software on the user's CPU?
I've avoided learning anything about HTML5 for the past year, but as it is getting adopted fairly quickly, I'd like to learn. Anyone know of any good HTML5 books or online resources?
We don't have the rights to redistribute the quake2 data files, however, if you download the full game, or own it, you can modify the code to unpak and convert the commercial full-game files.
The code contains the single player shareware quake levels, and multiplayer.
Minor clarification: The code doesn't literally contain the shareware levels (we don't have the right to do that either) -- there is a script that will download and convert them for you.
And I've confirmed that it works on the full game pak as well (though conversions won't work, as q2 game dlls are native code). Time to dig up that old copy of Q2!
I have the same problem. I've noticed an alarming increase in the number of websites that implement their own textboxes / textareas in pure Javascript.
Guess what guys, I can't use your site in conkeror -- unmodified keys already do things. So I am using the competitor instead.
It's been a plateau for the last 10 years, even with the buzzwords that have come and gone, not a lot of what I saw impressed me, and now it seems like all of a sudden, like you've walked round a corner and discovered some completely fucking mind blowing sight.
So brilliant that many of the things we have been trying to do but having to wrestle with the platform to achieve, are now supported and standardised.