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Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript
On 16/02/98 at 12:29 PM, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <caliban#darklock,com>
said: >At 11:11 AM 2/14/98 +0000, Mat Chatterley wrote:
>>Absolutely agreed that the browser interface is not useful. If anything,
>>it means a waste of resources!
>No it doesn't! Quit assuming that your MUD is the only damn thing I want
>to do while I'm online!
He's not making that assumption. He is (correctly?) assuming that you'll
use a different interface for other non-MUD applications, based on the
premise that MUDding is a specialised and unique enough activity to
warrant a non-generic (at least at the browser level) interface.
>I want all the same integrated features I'm used
>to, dammit, and your client can most definitely make use of forward and
>back while I'm playing if you use an interface that uses that -- like a
>separate help window on the side in a frame, for example.
I see how forward/back could be used in a help window. I fail to see how
they could be profitably used in a gaming window.
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- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript, (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] CORBA, RMI, threads,
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Wed 28 Jan 1998, 07:05 GMT
- VRML Becomes ISO/IEC International Standard (fwd),
Nathan Yospe yospe#hawaii,edu, Tue 27 Jan 1998, 22:33 GMT
- The Anti-Mac Interface,
JC Lawrence claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM, Tue 27 Jan 1998, 00:51 GMT
- Re: OT? [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Mike Sellers mike#online-alchemy,com, Mon 26 Jan 1998, 08:17 GMT
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