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Have you guys considered releasing a version of Army Builder as an RIA (rich internet application) using a technology like the AJAX (possibly with the Google Web Toolkit), Adobe Flex, or Microsoft Silverlight?
Army Builder seems like a perfect candidate for a web application. It would also open up future development possibilities like collaboration and publishing tools for rosters or possibly even taking advantage of a Local AJAX development paradigm and entirely obsolete the desktop version. Well, how about it? |
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--- YellowRex <william.furr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Army Builder seems like a perfect candidate for a web application. Actually, I would think it would be exactly the opposite. Hosting access to all the data for every game might get Lonewolf into some copyright issues. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com |
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Hmm, that's the rub, isn't it? Copyright issues with the various game systems. The rosters themselves wouldn't be an issue, it's the rulesets that cause the problem. I can't think of an easy solution to that off the top of my head, but there still might be a way.
When I say Army Builder is a good candidate for a web application, I was thinking of it solely in terms of user interface, data portability, collaboration, and sharing or publishing rosters. By those criteria, from a user's perspective, an RIA version of Army Builder just makes sense. PS - What's up with the new reply notifications from these forums? The URL was all wonky. |
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At 06:30 AM 5/3/2007, you wrote:
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The link in my original post illustrates the idea some. Here's a few more: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/02...h-firefox.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc...nchronize.html Really, the bigger issue is the licensing for the various game suites. Right now you guys get around that with user-created and maintained data files. There might be a way to maintain a framework-centric approach with a webapp, but all the ways I can think of to do it involve jumping through some hoops that wouldn't necessarily be convenient for users. |
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Check this out, Google Gears. It's Local AJAX done with the SQLite database instead:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6...feed&subj=zdnn |
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