Re^4: What's a good alternative to browser-webapp-webserver for remote apps?

[rudder]

This generally entails some sort of half-model-plus-protocol that replicates most of the model information on the client.

Ok. So, I'm guessing that means maybe something like:

player:position_x=120;position_y=83;orientation=52.2
...

and so on for other objects or events in the game (though probably in some more condensed format).

Having written one of these in AJAX, ...

Just curious: what format did you choose for sending your data back and forth? XML? Plain text? Something else?

[dragonchild]

Definitely in some more condensed format, though that condensing can often be provided by mod_deflate / mod_gzip.

We used JSON which is a proper subset of YAML. Very nice format to work with when chatting with Javascript. It also compresses very well. :-)