Re: [pygame] Re:

[Toni Alatalo <antont@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Ippolito kirjoitti:
> On 11/12/06, Toni Alatalo <antont@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > javascript seems pretty cool nowadays,
> You clearly don't speak from experience ;) Writing games in JavaScript
> (for the DOM anyway) is a huge mistake unless it's simple and/or text
> based, like a crossword game or sudoku. It's about four hundred
i have had to web guis with javascript now for work, but yah have never 
before even considered a possibility for game-like things. but was not 
surprised to see sudoku on the site that was linked from hear earlier :)
> thousand times easier to get it right in Flash, especially with regard
> to event handling and browser compatibility. Flash also nets you
> sound, vector graphics, more advanced networking capabilities, etc.
sure, but
> more advanced features and can require the Flash 9+ plugin then you
.. sometimes it is nice to not depend on any plugin, perhaps.
anyways it is kinda fun what kind of things are possible nowadays.

i guess one reason i have not jumped on flash is that i sometimes seem 
to not have it installed so i'd work in my browser, and dont always 
bother to install it either :p .. and same with java too.
> could use Adobe's free Flex 2 SDK or the open source haXe to compile
> down to AVM2 bytecode, which executes much faster. The new "Project
> Tamarin" that Adobe open sourced for use by Mozilla in future
> JavaScript engines is extracted from the AVM2 implementation in Flash 9
interesting.
> -bob
~Toni