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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 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".

    2. 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.

    3. 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"