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On my 2 year old laptop on Vista + Chrome 5beta, it runs just as fast as it did when I played it sitting at a TV screen eons ago. It's really quite impressive.
by thorax 16y ago
On my 2 year old laptop on Vista + Chrome 5beta, it runs just as fast as it did when I played it sitting at a TV screen eons ago. It's really quite impressive.
... or, rather, it's really quite depressing once you realize this is 25-year-old technology finally making its appearance into (some!) browsers without requiring plugins.
- albertzeyer 16y agoWhy is that depressing? I find it amazing and exiting.
- mynameishere 16y agoWhy do you find it amazing? I saw this first probably 10 years ago with java applets. Is it more amazing because applets are unfashionable?
- icefox 16y agoapplets don't work on [insert random browser on device]
- lukesandberg 16y agoyeah, but as people have noted this doesn't work on anything other than the latest builds of chrome and safari. Still impressive but this is not exactly a compatibility win.
- Rauchg 16y agoBut this is an implementation based on open web standards. It'll eventually work on mainstream Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and maybe (if <canvas> is supported and planets align) IE9.
- bfirsh 16y agohttp://twitpic.com/8w3xr http://twitpic.com/8w3xr :)
- daleharvey 16y agogetting code to work is easy, getting the largest most influential tech companies to cooperate on building a platform for you to deliver applications that work on most devices in the world entirely for free with no real financial incentive. thats a plain miracle.
- dRother 16y agoNo, it's because Applets, like Flash, are a narrow, specific, proprietary setting. Nobody has ever questioned that Java can handle something like that. The interesting part here is that it is showing that browsers and JavaScript, with a very different approach than Flash or Java, can now handle this sort of computationally intensive, graphics intensive application without any OS-specific plugins.
- elblanco 16y ago> computationally intensive, graphics intensive application Wake me up when that means something from only 5 years ago and not 20.
- someperson 16y agoI suspect a pure Javascript Gameboy Advance emulator is not too far off :P