physicist

i have a game that is a standalone .exe....can i put it in my website or does it need to be like a java applet or somethin like that?

Arevos

Standalone exes have to be downloaded before they can be executed. Java applets, flash and shockwave can be embedded in HTML documents.

lectricpharaoh

<pedantic> Well, they actually all need to be downloaded. However, for applets and Flash/Shockwave files, it's an implicit thing, and the user gets no choice (short of disabling the plugins, etc). For regular executables, at least on Windows-based machines, the user usually gets the option to save to disk, or run it from its current location (which actually means it's downloaded to a temp folder, and run from there). </pedantic>

@Arevos: This is aimed at the OP, not you; I know you know what I said above.

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physicist

well is this wrong then?
this is the site
http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/g...ides/12/3.html

DaWei

Think about it. If any site you surf to could run an .exe on your system, you wouldn't have a system. You'd have a pile of cinders. There has to be permission, explicit or implicit.

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physicist

k i guess i need to learn java then...im trying to get an online chess set up for my school chess club. can i do javascript? i found a javascript chess but it doesnt work on firefox (it works for IE)?!
can someone else tell me if tihs works for them?
http://javascript.internet.com/games/test.html
i dont see any pieces on the board on FF and in IE it works...i have javascript enabled on FF, any1 know what the problem might be??

Pizentios

you'll find that some (read: a lot) javascript will only run on IE. This is because Microsoft doesn't follow the web standards. They do it with a bunch of products, like their LDAP solution (Active Directory), or CSS.

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lectricpharaoh

Hehe, yeah, the old 'triple-E' approach they use (embrace, extend, extinguish).

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jsilver608

if you wrote it using the latest version of visual studio, you can change it to a web app with almost no effort. You might want to look into this.

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