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Development => Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback => Topic started by: Sonny on January 13, 2008, 02:03:02 PM

Title: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: Sonny on January 13, 2008, 02:03:02 PM

Okay this is easy to explain. Example:

You connect to a OTB-Server--> There's not a motd. But a wrapper to the otb page(or the page to rent a server). Simulary to the css motd.

Why? I think this will get more developers and game server hosters in dp²(good place for advertising)

and

A wrapper in the main menu to dplogin.com. A button like the "console" and teh "help" button.

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: jitspoe on January 14, 2008, 02:43:53 PM

Could you explain this a little more?  What do you mean by "wrapper"?

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: ViciouZ on January 14, 2008, 03:01:43 PM

He means a browser, like when you join a CS:S, DoD:S or similar game server, and you get a website in a popup box for the motd.

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: Sonny on January 14, 2008, 03:38:56 PM

I'm really confused that you don't know what a "wrapper" is. Let me try to explain. A wrapper is a page in a page ( example http://demo.yootheme.com/jan08/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=8 (http://demo.yootheme.com/jan08/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=8) ). It's only a browser in a page or in a game.

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: Cobo on January 14, 2008, 04:07:40 PM

... iframe?

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: Re on January 14, 2008, 04:13:24 PM

Quote from: Cobo on January 14, 2008, 04:07:40 PM

... iframe?

yes looks like an inline frame

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: Sonny on January 14, 2008, 04:16:08 PM

I only know it under tehname "wrapper". I don't know waht the official name is.

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: sk89q on January 14, 2008, 04:19:55 PM

Official name: browser, or more specifically: in-game browser.

Personally I don't know who would bother to visit a server's website, especially given that the regular MOTD is only there for a few measly seconds. The last thing I want to do in a game is use its browser too. Especially since, in Paintball's case, its resource usage is low enough that ALT-TABing out of the game is quick and painless.

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: jitspoe on January 14, 2008, 06:38:27 PM

Does CSS really have embedded web pages for their MOTD?  I thought it was just formatted text.  In any case, as I mentioned in the other topic, I'm not planning to have an embedded web browser in the game.  There's way too much overhead.

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: y00tz on January 15, 2008, 01:34:32 AM

Quote from: jitspoe on January 14, 2008, 06:38:27 PM

There's way too much overhead.

Indeed... imagine if our MOTDs AND skins were of goatse/tubgirl/etc.

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: sk89q on January 15, 2008, 02:21:51 AM

A server could just replace one of the textures to be goatse, or make an ASCII goatse. :|

Title: Re: Feature: MOTD--->Place for a wrapper of a webiste!
Post by: jitspoe on January 15, 2008, 12:18:39 PM

ASCSE.cx