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Mozilla releases Rescuefox prototype
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Mozilla has released a prototype to show off its Gladius game engine.
Mozilla's Gladius game engine is part of the outfit's Paladin project, which is trying to push 3D gaming in the Firefox web browser. The Rescuefox prototype was used to highlight any problems between the Gladius game engine and Firefox's Gecko rendering engine, and it also works on Google's Chrome.
Mozilla used Rescuefox as a simple throw-away prototype, meaning that now that it has come to the end of its useful life, Mozilla will discard it and look to build something else. The outfit suggested that other developers are free to fork Rescuefox if they want to use it for development purposes.
As Mozilla illustrated by Chrome's ability to play Rescuefox, its 3D gaming engine is not intended to create applications that run only on Firefox. However it is likely that Mozilla will use its prototypes to hone the performance of Firefox when running such games, something that it hopes will stand it in good stead as more and more games becomes in-browser applications.
Adobe is pushing the next version of its Flash plug-in as a way for games developers to create impressive in-browser games. The fact that Flash will eventually become obsolete for video thanks to HTML5 means that Adobe has to be find a way of enticing developers to use its software. Gaming is one profitable market where it thinks Flash could do well. That is, unless Google and Mozilla have anything to do about it.
Mozilla said that it will create another prototype once the Gladius code refactoring procedure is further down the road. With Google pushing its native Chrome client, it will be interesting to see if games developers move towards projects such as Gladius or stick with more traditional code such as native C and C++. µ
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The only people that continue to support flash are the ignorant masses that don't know about all the problems that is flash.
And as for the games comment, check this:
http://html5games.com/2011/05/angry-birds-html5/ Keep in mind, that's just the beginning. Know what peeves me about flash, you can't tab out of it! ARGH!!!
The fact that flash can be used for video is only a very tiny reason it is still used. Look at all the flash games that are available to play all over. Tens of millions of people play them everyday. Does HTML 5 allow for game coding in the browser like flash does? I didn't think so.....flash will be around for a long time.
Video is the only reason flash wsn't abandoned many many years ago.
I don't know anybody that likes flash for anything but video, people hate flash sites pretty universally, the perhaps 50 wordlwide that don't are the ones that make the sites that use it, unfortunately.
flash is expensive, has patents, not open
html5 will be a standard
no plugin needed
automatic support on all OSes that support firefox and chrome
html5 will be free, have access to c, c++, 3d, and in the browser without a plugin.
Why would people start using it when flash works fine?
Web-builders do not switch that easy when something works fine.
Just because you introduce something doesn't mean it will become the standard.
People don't change to something unless it can do stuff that you can't do now.
What has HTML5 that Flash can't do? It must be great else HTML5 will die just like many other things.