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Dare I ask if this will work in any version of IE?

by taitems 16y ago

romland 16y ago
Edit (on second thought): They are probably using canvas and not other trickery, then yeah, current versions of IE are pretty screwed. Original post: Since I am not involved in the project, I can't know for sure. But it is presented at a jQuery conference and, really, the main reason why anyone would use jQuery (or any similar intermediate layer written in JavaScript) is to get around cross-platform issues easily. That said, I'm pretty sure that at this stage it probably does not work in IE but I did not see any functionality in the video that suggests that it would not work in IE with a bit of effort put into it before launch. It probably performs like a dog, though. :-) On the flipside (and another cool project): FreeCiv (http://www.freeciv.net/ http://www.freeciv.net/) did not seem to be bothered with getting native IE functionality in place (it requires Chrome Frame).
- taitems 16y ago
  Well if they're using RaphaelJS or at least duplicating some of its functionality, then it should default back to VML for IE. I have no idea what VML is really capable of though.
- jeresig 16y ago
  This was demoed at today's jQuery Conference: There is no canvas used to render the tiles (it's all images). There is some canvas used to compute out the hit detection logic - but I suspect that that's something that could be generated server-side, rather than dynamically.
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pbakaus 16y ago
We are indeed working on bringing this to IE as well, but we're waiting until at a later stage. Keep in mind that this is all still alpha code. As jeresig pointed out, Canvas is really only used for calculating click-through maps on objects which can be ignored / done server-side. It should be relatively easy to fix remaining bugs in IE.
weixiyen 16y ago
good thing is if you are making an browser MMO game you can much just require users use a specific browser. Unless it's dead simple to get it to work in IE, I would not even bother.

Dare I ask if this will work in any version of IE?

by taitems 16y ago

Dare I ask if this will work in any version of IE?

Edit (on second thought): They are probably using canvas and not other trickery, then yeah, current versions of IE are pretty screwed. Original post: Since I am not involved in the project, I can't know for sure. But it is presented at a jQuery conference and, really, the main reason why anyone would use jQuery (or any similar intermediate layer written in JavaScript) is to get around cross-platform issues easily. That said, I'm pretty sure that at this stage it probably does not work in IE but I did not see any functionality in the video that suggests that it would not work in IE with a bit of effort put into it before launch. It probably performs like a dog, though. :-) On the flipside (and another cool project): FreeCiv (http://www.freeciv.net/ http://www.freeciv.net/) did not seem to be bothered with getting native IE functionality in place (it requires Chrome Frame).

taitems 16y ago
Well if they're using RaphaelJS or at least duplicating some of its functionality, then it should default back to VML for IE. I have no idea what VML is really capable of though.
jeresig 16y ago
This was demoed at today's jQuery Conference: There is no canvas used to render the tiles (it's all images). There is some canvas used to compute out the hit detection logic - but I suspect that that's something that could be generated server-side, rather than dynamically.

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pbakaus 16y ago

We are indeed working on bringing this to IE as well, but we're waiting until at a later stage. Keep in mind that this is all still alpha code. As jeresig pointed out, Canvas is really only used for calculating click-through maps on objects which can be ignored / done server-side. It should be relatively easy to fix remaining bugs in IE.

weixiyen 16y ago

good thing is if you are making an browser MMO game you can much just require users use a specific browser. Unless it's dead simple to get it to work in IE, I would not even bother.