This blog post about Google’s web-based instant messaging is making the rounds:
http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=538
So here’s my thinking… If I can open up a second port on my mud and run a simple HTTP server on it (lots of people have done this already), I can pretty easily hack write_to_descriptor to send information to a persistent HTTP connection. In fact, it’ll practically be a regular mud connection except color codes and newlines and stuff will be parsed into their equivalent HTML (fairly straight-forward modification of the color code). And interpret will be called from an HTTP post. Then some work in javascript and I can have a web-based mud client.
I’ll have the first Web 2.0 mud.
web-based mud client?
March 26, 2006 12:11am (4 years, 4 months and 3 days ago)Comments
Mar 27, 2006 10:35pm
Web 2.0? Is that HTTP 2.0? I thought we were only at 1.1.
Do I need to upgrade my browser?
Enough foolishness. How are you handling the HTML markup? I doubt there’s a “proper” semantic markup, but CSS might save you in markup size, which is an issue since you can’t really cache anything on the server.
I’ve thought about this before, and the
Plus, you can change the colors with a new stylesheet.
Do I need to upgrade my browser?
Enough foolishness. How are you handling the HTML markup? I doubt there’s a “proper” semantic markup, but CSS might save you in markup size, which is an issue since you can’t really cache anything on the server.
I’ve thought about this before, and the
<b> element with a single-letter class for each color seems the most efficient.Plus, you can change the colors with a new stylesheet.
Mar 28, 2006 4:38am
I wonder if gz compressing the stream would interfere with progressive rendering. Might be worth a shot.
All in all, it’s an interesting hack. Too bad it requires a custom web server.
All in all, it’s an interesting hack. Too bad it requires a custom web server.
Jun 28, 2007 10:32pm
poo
Oct 22, 2007 8:18pm
It is an interesting hack and not at all poo. Shame on you Doctor Smelly!
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Accepts BBCode with a few enhancements.
It was creating push code just fine, but then I attempted to co-opt the MUD’s buffered i/o system and string parsing functions to handle HTTP requests. This turned out to be a mistake; they are fundamentally bad for dealing with HTTP headers. I’ll have to start over with a less stupid design.