Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5

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."

Comments

Re:Installation Instructions?

[Hurricane78]

any idiot can build a flash game.

You say that as if it were something good. Look what “any idiot can...” did to non-strict (X)HTML!
It is not good. It is the very reason we hat all those stupid crappy Flash intros in the first place.

An idiot should not be able to write a website! Not even the simplest one!
Then we would not have had that mess that is the current browser engines!