Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 2, 2010 @06:51AM from the browsing-for-strogg dept.

Dr Herbert West writes "A trio of Google engineers have ported id Software's gib-filled first-person shooter Quake II to browsers — you know, for kicks — as a way to show just what HTML5-compatible web browsers are capable of. According to the developers, 'We started with the existing Jake2 Java port of the Quake II engine, then used the Google Web Toolkit (along with WebGL, WebSockets, and a lot of refactoring) to cross-compile it into JavaScript.' More details are available on one developer's blog, and installation instructions have been posted as well."

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Re:OMGLOLWTF by endikos · 2010-04-02 06:57 · Score: 4, Insightful

Because you can.
Proof of Concept by pavon · 2010-04-02 07:10 · Score: 4, Insightful

The purpose of something like this is to push the boundaries of what can be done in web development as a means of determining where it falls short, and what needs to be done to allow efficient practical applications in the future.
1. Re:Proof of Concept by TaoPhoenix · 2010-04-02 08:07 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  So does this mean the folks whining about "flash is needed for cheap space invader games" can go away now?
  
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