Browser-Based "Quake Live" Trailer Released 48
RPS has a great trailer for the new browser-based Quake Live game currently in beta. While it might make the community contribution which has sanded the rough edges off of any of the installments to the franchise a little harder, another round of fragging that I can pick up from any browser could be hugely fun.
No linux (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:ActiveX, almost certainly. (Score:3, Insightful)
There's no way they're doing real time 3d in flash or javascript, so they're almost certainly using ActiveX or a plugin.
The last I remember hearing, John Carmack uses Macs (at least the hardware) for his development platform and given his personal history towards interoperability, I'd seriously doubt we'd see Active X only which would prevent Linux and OS X from playing.
Re:Browser-based? (Score:4, Insightful)
I thought the main goal of PDF was a printable document format so that we wouldn't have to rely on browser HTML printing or Microsoft Word documents.
Re:Or standalone (Score:3, Insightful)
That's an implementation detail. It's just a way of implementing a plugin as far as (a) cross-platform portability, (b) performance, and (c) security is concerned. It means that it doesn't depend on Microsoft's ghastly security backdoor (ActiveX), and so long as that's true anything else is just icing.