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#1 2012-08-17 01:16:26
HTML5 Player + Cloud Saving?
To make Scratch games playable on mobile devices (especially since Flash is dead), isn't it time to switch to an HTML5 based player? And as a bonus wish item, I wish for the player to have a save button that saves to the cloud for those with Scratch accounts or at the very least export to a text file and have an import save option.
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#2 2012-08-17 07:14:15
Re: HTML5 Player + Cloud Saving?
Most mobile devices do not support WebSocketx, so cloud saving could be hard.
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#3 2012-08-17 07:49:56
Re: HTML5 Player + Cloud Saving?
And why is Flash dead? YouTube uses it, Newsgrounds uses it...
Apple are in some sort of squabble with Macromedia. That doesn't mean it's automatically dead. :\
cause a bird and a fish could fall in love/but where would they live?
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#4 2012-08-17 10:45:21
Re: HTML5 Player + Cloud Saving?
jukyter wrote:
And why is Flash dead? YouTube uses it, Newsgrounds uses it...
Apple are in some sort of squabble with Macromedia. That doesn't mean it's automatically dead. :\
+1 I prefer Flash over HTML5. It's too slow.
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#5 2012-08-17 10:54:37
- Firedrake969
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Re: HTML5 Player + Cloud Saving?
ImagineIt wrote:
jukyter wrote:
And why is Flash dead? YouTube uses it, Newsgrounds uses it...
Apple are in some sort of squabble with Macromedia. That doesn't mean it's automatically dead. :\+1 I prefer Flash over HTML5. It's too slow.
+∞: Flash is not dead. HTML5 is. Everyone uses Flash, nobody uses HTML5
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#6 2012-08-17 12:07:55
- veggieman001
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Re: HTML5 Player + Cloud Saving?
@above posters: Flash is dead for mobile devices. Adobe is no longer supporting it, so HTML5 is the only option for them. Also, a lot of sites are beginning to use HTML5 now (like YouTube) and it's usually much faster than Flash (take sb2.js vs. Flash player)
@OP: There's already a plan for an HTML5 player after 2.0 comes out. Alternately one could use the Scratcher-made sb2.js or JsScratch to play Scratch projects with Javascript. The saving could be programmed in with cloud lists, which would be possible via an official JS player.
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#8 2012-08-19 04:08:33
Re: HTML5 Player + Cloud Saving?
Zygorithm wrote:
@veggieman
Do you have a link to this sb2.js or JsScratch things? Are they usable on mobile devices? (I'm want to play my games on the Nexus 7 running Android 4.1 which doesn't support Flash).
sb2.js: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12239448/js%20project%20reader/index.htm
I have it bookmarked >:D
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#9 2012-08-21 15:14:26
Re: HTML5 Player + Cloud Saving?
Zygorithm wrote:
@veggieman
Do you have a link to this sb2.js or JsScratch things? Are they usable on mobile devices? (I'm want to play my games on the Nexus 7 running Android 4.1 which doesn't support Flash).
If you're using Android, why not just use the Java player?
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