Comments on: Internet Explorers: Browser Civ

By: Devenger

Devenger — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:57:01 +0000

Can’t comment on the validity of your point, but I’m loving the style of analogy employed here.

By: Leperous

Leperous — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:54:31 +0000

I want browser Sim City 2000 tbh.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:04:18 +0000

Also, anyone not mortally offended by the “powerful” system requirements for a game which has the technical complexity of a title it’s cloning that would run on a 200MHz Pentium? You make the Heavy cry. That’s right, your apathy toward this gross inefficiency just strikes the big guy right in the core of his being. He weeps for your squandered battery life as a high-end CPU screams flat-out to blit some 2D graphics to the framebuffer via so many crappy abstraction layers that when the Engineer tried to diagram them all out he accidentally created a critical mass of UML that collapsed in on itself and swallowed the entire red base into a black hole.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:53:59 +0000

Oh good, a flood of uninformed blather about how browsers are going to render operating systems obsolete.

Why, with IE8 and Chrome finally using OS process separation to isolate each tab, and modern JavaScript/HTML having some kind of shitty storage API, it’s almost as if we were really, really badly reinventing EXACTLY THE SAME THING. Only now instead of files, you get little packets of JSON hiding in your browser profile. Or on somebody else’s server. Oh, glorious day.

Oh, and don’t ever press Alt-Left, because that’ll instantly quit your “web application”. Oopsie!

By: FernandoDANTE

FernandoDANTE — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:37:21 +0000

Nope. Everywhere I click, be it the “connect with Facebook” or the “SIGN UP NOW!” links, it all goes back to the home page. Broken piece of garbage.

By: Sentient

Sentient — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:24:11 +0000

I was just trying to indiciate that there’s a huge performance gap between compiled-to-machine code (C++), compiled to bytecode(any .NET language) and an interpreted language(JS).

Furthermore C++ is an elaborate language, so creating a C++ to JS compiler will be an enormous task. If the only benefit is playing DOS games in a browser then I’ll doubt it will happen.

True about fast enough and ease of development. On the other hand Dragon Age compiled to JS will not be “fast-enough”.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:08:50 +0000

I can play the game, but it looks nothing like the screenshot on the homepage. I’m missing a lot of info icons, can’t see if/where citizens are working on the city screen, and I can’t interact with other nations. Hmm. Or is it just suppsed to be like that and they haven’t implemented anything yet? Using firefox.

By: Carra

Carra — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:18:22 +0000

Everyone knows that Firefox is best!

By: bookwormat

bookwormat — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:39:29 +0000

For some things .NET is 10 times slower than C++, and JS 10 times slower than .NET so that’s a factor 100.

.NET is a software platform, C++ and Javascript are programming languages. Programming languages cannot be faster or slower (in terms of execution performance) than other languages. That depends on the implementation of said language. Javascript on .NET does not need to be slower than C# on .NET or C++ on .NET .

And then, “fast” is not a requirement for software. “fast enough” is. As long as the software is fast enough, it does not matter if another technology could have made it faster. Especially if the “slower” technology allows for faster development, faster maintainance, faster enhancement.

By: Sentient

Sentient — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:45:47 +0000

C++ to JS wtf?
For some things .NET is 10 times slower than C++, and JS 10 times slower than .NET so that’s a factor 100. And C++ is quite a complex language with a lot of features. So even if the can get the C++ to JS correct then you’re still having the performance issue.

That being said I like jQuery.

By: Bonedwarf

Bonedwarf — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:53:57 +0000

Apple crap? Buy a real device and stop moaning. HA!

By: brkl

brkl — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:09:14 +0000

I use Opera :(