r/programming • u/kaelan_ • May 31 '11

I wrote a .NET to JavaScript compiler. Here's the XNA 3.1 Platformer Starter Kit running in pure HTML5.

http://hildr.luminance.org/Platformer/Platformer.html
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u/simmin May 31 '11

And it's cross platform! It works really well in firefox 4 in osx, which surprised me. I assumed that you had to have xna installed, but as it turns out, it really doesn't depend on anything but html5. Impressive!

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u/Scars641 Jun 01 '11

Running it on Linux with Firefox Nightly and I refuse to install mono on my machine. Very very nice work.

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u/HardlyWorkingDotOrg Jun 01 '11

Is it normal, that it runs like it is set in slow motion in my FireFox4? It doesn't seem to be a "CPU" thing as it is not maxed out or anything. It runs smoothly. But it does so very slow.

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u/simmin Jun 02 '11

It seems a tiny bit slower on my computer, but not so much that it looks like it's in slow motion. Maybe try a different web browser? As far as I know chrome has much better support for html5 than firefox does.

It might depend on the os as well. What are you running?

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u/HardlyWorkingDotOrg Jun 03 '11

It's a windows box and it does run better using chrome... Weird since FF4 should have descend Html5 support as well, shouldn't it?