Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Developing a server/client card game Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:40:52 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <818d458e-31a8-4c61-b735-956a2e5e15d7@googlegroups.com> <2f8100b0-ab38-4703-8096-2a8f23ba2111@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net TWIk4ismtLTUJ5NLNmctxgdFBorSluGXfub5jWXML1CbWCxz0= Cancel-Lock: sha1:MuXxN35l9k1gs/Q61wUyUarzlZU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <2f8100b0-ab38-4703-8096-2a8f23ba2111@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.ruby:6911 On 30.12.2013 16:49, ggarra13@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, December 30, 2013 7:52:57 AM UTC-3, Robert Klemme wrote: >> >> Is this game supposed to be run in a web browser? Does it have to be >> multi platform? If so that basically limits your choices with regard to >> language drastically. You could use HTML + JavaScript, Java Applet (or >> Web Start) or something .Net - but that is not very portable. >> > Yes, it must run on the web browser. It should be similar to worldofcardgames.com. In terms of scalability it *may* be reasonable to implement a lot in clients (i.e. JavaScript running in the browser) and only issue REST requests with JSON documents as data exchange. Then it barely matters what you use server side - all named platforms have sufficient support for REST and JSON. Kind regards robert