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Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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The "Compiling Javascript" loader takes way too long (at least on my system) to not give any indication as to how long I will wait or whether it's still doing anything. At least a "this might take up to X minutes".

Demo itself ran halfway ok, clicking on 'Benchmark' (which I had to guess was in the upper pulldown) immediately froze everything for me (Firefox on Kubuntu).

Still: I do appreciate a demo that even kinda-sorta works on gnu/linux.

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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I love the fact that Mozilla keeps pushing javascript to its limits. They seem to be doing a lot of things really well lately, this is awesome!! Plus you have Firefox OS, which pushes web-standards to native mobile. Now I just wish the devtools would get up to paar with those on chrome/chromium and I'd be switching back to FF in a heartbeat.

I wish google would stay on board with JS since they have the engineering power to do a lot in this area, but to me it seems after V8 they've kind of abbonned JS in favor of Dart (As oppossed to supporting asm.js). For instance, I just did the "try anyway" in chrome 26.0 linux and everything crashed. Did anyone get it working in chrome?

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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post #5

This is awesome! I wished I could run cause its slow to walk around but then I discovered you can alt-tab to another window and keep the event for W active

OK, just discovered you can double click for the dude to walk over there too ;p

edit: although there is no path finding

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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post #4

I love the fact that Mozilla keeps pushing javascript to its limits. They seem to be doing a lot of things really well lately, this is awesome!! Plus you have Firefox OS, which pushes web-standards to native mobile. Now I just wish the devtools would get up to paar with those on chrome/chromium and I'd be switching back to FF in a heartbeat. I wish google would stay on board with JS since they have the engineering po…

v8 doesn't look abandoned to me: there have been 19 commits so far today to the public v8 repository. https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/list

Re: Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo

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post #4

I love the fact that Mozilla keeps pushing javascript to its limits. They seem to be doing a lot of things really well lately, this is awesome!! Plus you have Firefox OS, which pushes web-standards to native mobile. Now I just wish the devtools would get up to paar with those on chrome/chromium and I'd be switching back to FF in a heartbeat. I wish google would stay on board with JS since they have the engineering po…

From the FAQ:

    - Chrome currently crashes, but is expected to be resolved by the Chrome team soon.
http://www.unrealengine.com/html5_faq/
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