Google NaCL - food for thought

[Jasoco]

Yeah. That's what NaCL is for. I think it'd work really well if Löve's engine ran inside a browser and could load .love files and people could just play the games in their browser.

[Robin]

There is a LÖVE browser plugin prototype already, which is simply based on vanilla LÖVE. Nothing is done with it, it's just a proof-of-concept thingy and it had a few flaws (it never gets keyboard focus, for example), which I think is a shame.

[IQuit]

Vanilla LÖVE: need to install for every game
Browser Plugin: need to install for first game
NaCl: need to enable NaCl (currently disabled by default) and runs on Chrome only
Javascript: need to enable javascript (if you disabled it)

[MarekkPie]

I think that would be a great project for you to work on, lQuit.

[Jasoco]

Vanilla LÖVE: need to install for every game
Browser Plugin: need to install for first game
NaCl: need to enable NaCl (currently disabled by default) and runs on Chrome only
Javascript: need to enable javascript (if you disabled it)

NaCl will be great when it's finalized and other browsers support it. If Google can convince others to pick it up. I hope they do because it would mean no more plugins needed for things that used to require them before. And even better if it even works in mobile versions of these browsers like iOS Safari and the Android browser.

[Robin]

Vanilla LÖVE: need to install for every game

You only need LÖVE once, then you can run any .love you like (provided it is written for the right version, of course).

[Xgoff]

Vanilla LÖVE: need to install for every game
Browser Plugin: need to install for first game
NaCl: need to enable NaCl (currently disabled by default) and runs on Chrome only
Javascript: need to enable javascript (if you disabled it)

NaCl will be great when it's finalized and other browsers support it. If Google can convince others to pick it up. I hope they do because it would mean no more plugins needed for things that used to require them before. And even better if it even works in mobile versions of these browsers like iOS Safari and the Android browser.

google's going to have to do a hell of a lot of convincing to get mozilla to adopt it; they're hell-bent on getting people to compile to javascript instead

but then again javascript's inventor is mozilla's CTO