No, this isn’t more amateur philosophy.
You may remember I talked for a while about starting a web-based mud. The idea is to open a constantly “downloading” page inside an <iframe>. The server pushes javascript blocks to that page on events, where they’re interpreted as they’re received and can interact with the page’s DOM. When that’s combined with Ajax requests over keepalive connections and it’s all abstracted, you can sort of squint your eyes and turn your head to the side, and it looks like full duplex communication.
Well, I still haven’t written the fantastico game I imagined, but I did put a lot of work into the engine, so I recently decided to build a javascript version of 42.
It’s the national game of Texas, you know.
I’ve only been working on the game part for a few days and it’s still far from finished – the AI players go too fast, and they occasionally try to play dominoes that they don’t even have in their hand. That’ll get smoothed over as time moves on.
But now I’m a bit concerned about where I’ll host my abomination. It needs its custom web server, since all of the connections have to interface with a centralized event system, and it’s terribly expensive to keep persistent connections open on Apache or the like (and any web hosting company would sever my head for trying to do it).
I guess the only real option is to rent out a VPS with a dedicated IP? Hmph…
javascript and the meaning of life
February 1, 2007 12:45pm (3 years, 5 months and 4 weeks ago)
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Cole Barksdale
Feb 1, 2007 4:37pm
Your creepy eyes blink at me when I use IE 6. *shudders*
Feb 1, 2007 5:50pm
You’re lucky they don’t glare at you for using IE 6.
Prepare to meet MR. ANGRY EYES!
Prepare to meet MR. ANGRY EYES!
Feb 3, 2007 12:06am
I agree, but the Air Force doesn’t allow me to think on my own and use my choice of browser. So, we’re stuck with IE 6 until IE 10 comes out, then we can upgrade to IE 7. Good stuff. :D
Feb 9, 2007 12:26am
We weren’t supposed to have IE7 at work until at least April, when all of the testing of all of the intranet stuff was complete, but they accidentally pushed it out last month, and sure enough, there are at least two local applications that do not support it! Yay!
Of course, I’m the freak that uses Firefox out there anyway, well except for the four applications I need that don’t support it (and by faking my browser identity, I know that three that say they don’t but do and the other just goes knucking futz if you try).
Of course, I’m the freak that uses Firefox out there anyway, well except for the four applications I need that don’t support it (and by faking my browser identity, I know that three that say they don’t but do and the other just goes knucking futz if you try).
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Accepts BBCode with a few enhancements.
