To be honest, this game is made for multi touch screens. Simultaneously cutting the rope and pressing the airbag doesn't work very well on Chrome (or IE).
Indeed. There are levels in cut the rope that require multiple simultaneous touches.
Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
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Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#52To be honest, this game is made for multi touch screens. Simultaneously cutting the rope and pressing the airbag doesn't work very well on Chrome (or IE).
Indeed. There are levels in cut the rope that require multiple simultaneous touches.
And are those levels in this one? It's easy for them to select web friendly levels or create a couple more or omit them.
Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#53Both Angry Birds and Cut the Rope are now on HTML5 ( http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ ) This is starting to become a trend, but it needs a strong driver. The Windows 8 App Store may provide the push needed to get HTML5 adoption up for applications. It's a different ball game in the web, but I think we'll start to see the web playing a bigger role in the marketplace. Just curious: Why the down vote?
Microsoft surprised me that they didn't block out other browsers. Google didn't surprise me at all and the game is blocked in Opera. It works when user-agent is changed.
It's sad when company acting as someone for open and standard web is doing this. And Google is doing this user-agent sniffing across all their products.
Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#54Both Angry Birds and Cut the Rope are now on HTML5 ( http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ ) This is starting to become a trend, but it needs a strong driver. The Windows 8 App Store may provide the push needed to get HTML5 adoption up for applications. It's a different ball game in the web, but I think we'll start to see the web playing a bigger role in the marketplace. Just curious: Why the down vote?
Microsoft surprised me that they didn't block out other browsers. Google didn't surprise me at all and the game is blocked in Opera. It works when user-agent is changed. It's sad when company acting as someone for open and standard web is doing this. And Google is doing this user-agent sniffing across all their products.
I very much agree with you. Although this week all the Google+ stuff first unavailable in Opera is now visible.
Maybe Google is just playing safe and only launches when they are 100% sure the browser supports the app.
Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#55Works on the Playbook, playable but at a low frame rate.
Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#56I'm confused why Microsoft would sponsor something like this. Google going after game developers and getting them to port their apps to HTML5 makes sense, as it supports the Web as a platform as well as promotes the Chrome Web Store. Is the plan that the Windows8 App Store feature Chrome Store-style URLs-as-applications?
The whole "behind the scenes" reads like an advertisement.
Striking excerpts:
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> cuttherope._ie_
> Canvas is an amazingly fast rendering surface, especially in a browser where that API is hardware accelerated (like Internet Explorer 9).
> Internet Explorer 9’s Chakra JavaScript engine pre-compiles the code on a background thread [...] The result is near-native execution speeds. Amazingly, this is something that you just get for free.
> while we can say Internet Explorer 9 users get a great plug-in free experience, Chrome and some Firefox users could have run into an audio problem
> Much of our development was done in Visual Web Developer 2010 (the "express" version is available for free here). This is a really robust web editor with autocompletion for JavaScript and CSS. It’s great that the express version is free.
> in most cases, anything we tested in Internet Explorer 9 “just worked” everywhere else.
> With some guidance from Microsoft, we decided to replace the recursive function with an “unpacked” iterative version of the same code.
> Frankly, we would have never found that without the profiling tools in Internet Explorer 9.
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The whole performance part is worded to sound like porting from Obj-C to JS is a breeze, JS code is actually cleaner and more straightforward than Obj-C, Canvas offers more features and performs better than OpenGL ES, and so on.
This is not so much an ad for IE9 as an ad targeting developers, showcasing the (present and future) Microsoft development ecosystem as best class.
Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft surprised me that they didn't block out other browsers. Google didn't surprise me at all and the game is blocked in Opera. It works when user-agent is changed. It's sad when company acting as someone for open and standard web is doing this. And Google is doing this user-agent sniffing across all their products.
I very much agree with you. Although this week all the Google+ stuff first unavailable in Opera is now visible. Maybe Google is just playing safe and only launches when they are 100% sure the browser supports the app.
That's probably it for some features but it still sounds like "You have to use IE5 or higher to see this site" to me.
Also, some features have been blocked for a long time for no apparent reason, for example background image on search. It worked from the day one (when you changed the user-agent), there is nothing scientific about it, yet it is still blocked years later.
Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#58Very cool work pixelLab!
Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#59You have to see the cute picture they put if you try to view it on IE8
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1417/cuttheropeie.png
Re: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
#60its really nice .