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Mozilla Labs To Promote Open Web Gaming

Posted by timothy on from the good-idea-oh-lord dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla Labs has started an initiative to promote and develop gaming based on Open Web technologies. They write, 'We are excited to present to you the latest initiative from Mozilla Labs: Gaming. Mozilla Labs Gaming is all about games built, delivered and played on the Open Web and the browser. We want to explore the wider set of technologies which make immersive gaming on the Open Web possible. We invite the wider community to play with cool, new tech and aim to help establish the Open Web as the platform for gaming across all your Internet connected devices.' To that end Mozilla Labs will launch Game On 2010, a game development competition, at the end of September."

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  1. Maybe... by wampus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe they should focus less on evangelization and more on making a browser that people want to use. Chrome is eating their lunch and they are content to push agendas instead of pushing code.

    1. Re:Maybe... by tepples · · Score: 4, Insightful

      and don't have a universal way for websites to embed them.

      There was iframe before there was iPod.

      Usually you also end up having to give out your full code

      To a greater extent than you end up giving your code to anyone with an SWF decompiler?

    2. Re:Maybe... by BZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

      1) Mozilla's goal is an open web, not "making a browser". Making a browser is a means to an end.

      2) I'm curious about your use of "instead" instead of "in addition to".

    3. Re:Maybe... by JackieBrown · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Chrome agenda is both. They are trying to "advance the web" by pushing "to open the web."

      There is a reason that they almost exclusively chose open protocols and standards for their products and browsers.

      They are large supporters of HTML 5, they pushed an open codec to give a viable alternative to h.264, they support imap and pop for gmail even though it allows you to bypass their adds, and they use jabber for their IM protocol instead of coming up with something new and closed like Mypsace, MS, Yahoo, Facebook, and Skype did.

    4. Re:Maybe... by Zixaphir · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I can not for the life of me understand how anyone thinks that Firefox is a substandard browser. It does everything I want it to do and more, while allowing me to tweak anything in almost any way I please.

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      "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
    5. Re:Maybe... by mr_mischief · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Not just open protocols and open standards, but open source to implement them. That's a big deal, too. Everyone should see the benefits of open standards and open protocols. Open source is a subtler and less commonly chosen solution.

    6. Re:Maybe... by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Mozilla ain't got shit to worry about. sure some geeks may go play with chrome for awhile, but Mozilla has an ace in the hole I haven't seen any of the other touch yet...their kick ass extension framework, which appeals to what I call the "non geek" factor. My GF barely knows more than "clicky clicky" on a PC, my mom and dad are even more clueless, yet they all have custom browsers. Did I do that? Nope, Firefox extensions. Once they learned of Firefox extensions they were customizing like crazy, and frankly I have yet to see any of the other browsers give me the kind of fine grained control over the web like Adblock Plus and Noscript give me.

      So if any Mozilla developers are reading this? Listen to your old pal Hairyfeet: Embed a video on your first run site that shows a simple tutorial on how easy extensions are to install and use, and I would add something like "Have you tried extensions to make the web YOUR way? want us to show you how with an easy video?" on the screen they see after an update. Extensions are THE "killer app" you have over everyone else, and the lock in potential is off the chart, as everyone I know who have tried extensions, including myself, simply won't go back to using the web without it.

      Hell even my 67 year old clueless dad will call me if he has to use a relative's PC that doesn't have Firefox complaining that "Their web is busted, all they have is that lousy blue E thing!" and I have to walk him through getting Firefox so he can have IMGZoom and Adblock Plus. So push extensions Mozilla, push them hard.

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      ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
    7. Re:Maybe... by Richard_at_work · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Because of stupid ass stunts like foisting the 'Awesome Bar' on us with no option to completely revert back to the old behaviour (no, setting maxRichResults to 0 DOES NOT WORK before someone chimes up with it - it gimps the AB somewhat but it does not revert it to pre-AB behaviour).

      Because of stupid ass stunts like turning on silent automatic updates by default when we bitched and shouted at Microsoft for doing exactly the same thing.

      Because of the way activity in one tab can still block the entire browser, such as showing an authentication prompt (no way to switch to another tab while that there box is showing).