On 8/26/07, Andreas Røsdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I sent a proposal about a web client for Freeciv some time ago. > Now I've implemented a prototype / proof of concept. > > It uses a webservice which allows a browser to communicate with a > civclient process on the server. The mapview is renederes using the canvas > element which is drawn upon using Javascript. > > Screenshot: > http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~andrearo/freeciv-web-client.png > > Source code: > http://www.pvv.org/~andrearo/webclient.tar.bz2 > http://www.pvv.org/~andrearo/architecture.png > > Requirements: > csoap - http://csoap.sourceforge.net/ > Apache Axis - http://ws.apache.org/axis/ > > > It would be great with some feedback on the Freeciv C part of the > webservice. It is found under /client/gui-web. The performance still has a > way to go, perhaps someone has some suggestions. > > It currently should work with any browser supporting the canvas > HTML element. This includes Firefox 1.5, Opera, Safari and even Internet > Explorer (using excanvas from Google).
This looks very nice. I thought we had to wait for web 3.0 and RIAs for someone to make this work. I guess I was wrong. :-) -- Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
