HTML Testbench: first demo

[prog]

It's worth a personal blog entry, if not a Volity blog entry: Demo of an HTML game UI, running in an HTML port of Testbench. Testbench is otherwise a Java program that Zarf put together a while ago for testing SVG UIs.

This demo is probably boring and meaningless to you unless you're deep enough into the Volity trip to see where I'm going with this.

I am really on fire about the web client and don't wanna work on anything else. But I must! I'll suffer through one day of worky-work and then spend the rest of the week on this. I think I can make Web-Testbench feature-complete and also make good headway in the client as a whole before next Monday. (Yes, I realize I have a presentation to put together, too.) As things are for-real completed I'll announce them on volity.net forums.

Comments

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Pretty sweet! We missed you last night but I can appreciate being passed up in order to get this done.

[cnoocy]

Is this still using SVG?

[katre50.livejournal.com]

That's pretty awesome. Time to go find my notes from when I gave up on understanding SVG, I think.

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

game.mark('lol', 4)
game.mark('cats', 4)

[misuba.livejournal.com]

How important is an HTML testbench app, given Firebug?

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

Important, because at least one out of three Volity founders doesn't use Firefox much.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge fan of it, but you should seriously consider supporting a Flash API as well. Flash's internal scripting language is essentially ECMAScript (in fact I think it uses the Mozilla javascript interpreter) so it strikes me that supporting it wouldn't be that hard.

A LOT of people are familiar with Flash and there's a million "YouTube for games" sites out there already - but as far as I know none of them support true multiplayer games except through custom servers. Would be pretty sweet being able to use a standard API for that sort of thing.