Re: [Rails-devel] tile rendering objects

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

>> I know.  I was meaning that because it's a web-based application, it
>> would be a good candidate for using SVG-based tile graphics being that
>> there are SVG viewer plugins for most browsers.
>> 
>> The server can deliver the SVG directly to the client without needing to
>> render or store the image locally on the server first.

>Since the Java client is going to be running there anyway, it isn't clear 
>that using SVG for display in a browser would work very well.  It would 
>certainly be difficult to manage the display with part of it being 
>rendered in an applet and part in an SVG viewer plugin.

I think you're misunderstanding.

The GameTestServlet is meant to run server-side as a game server UI (think CGI-style server-side processing). To allow playing games through a web-page. The servlet serves up standard HTML pages.

The Swing-based UI is meant to be a stand-alone application.

These are two completely separate interfaces that don't run together and are more or less completely incompatible. The intention is to allow two totally different ways of playing a game that uses the same underlying engine (and further secures model/view separation).

So, when I say that the Servlet can use SVG, I mean that in the process of serving out an HTML page to the client, it could do so using SVG as the content-type of the tile/map images.


---Brett.