Quake II Gets Ported to Your HTML5 Web Browser

Between Google's push, and Apple's rejection of Flash on their mobile devices, it seems HTML 5 adoption will spread much more quickly than many (even on this site) have anticipated

More sites need to push away crappy flash and adopt HTML 5. It's obviously more efficient and been around longer.

wow and I thought QuakeLive was good as a plugin... now I don't need a plugin to frag my office pals.... hell, I could hide this on the intranet somewhere and noone would be the wiser; they would think we were working on spreadsheets. *note to self, write a boss button hack for Quake2*

Is there anywhere this game has not been ported? ( my Droid runs it).

Nothing short of awesome!

So...how do I get it? (nooBie)

This certainly looks very good. It looks like a good publicity for HTML5, but I'm not sure it's ultimately good for us, consumers.

Plainly put, Mozilla still hasn't clarified if they will incorporate HTML5 H.264 video now that the licensing fees have been postponed until, at least, 2015. It's a double-edged sword, because if the companies that have the patent decide otherwise when 2015 arrives, then Mozilla either finds a way to make it financially viable to buy the license, or they will effectively have to "downgrade" the browser in the next version.

It's a tough call, but what ultimately come out of this could also say a lot about the future of open-source software, especially because Firefox is the most recognized piece of open source software in the world.

And Opera still hasn't said a word either. And all other minor browsers will be left in the dark too. If this happens it will be a battle between IE, Safari and Chrome... not a good prospect...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video

http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/

Or you could go to the provided blog link in the story and get the link there.

html 5 ftw
I hope they port capture the flag for quake2 as well.

Frankly I think the adoption of HTML 5 has very little to do with Apple's inability to get Flash running on the iPad. But this is journalism I guess so preach on.

I used to run that game on my second PC I've owned, a Pentium 166 MMX. No thanks, it was fun at the time but I don't want to go back to 1997 era graphics, I'll stick to modern age graphics for games.

Why can't we just browse the web in a browser? and play games on the PC or console?

I don't know how long HTML5 has been around but I agree that the resource hogging advertisement platform known as Flash sucks and needs to go. I love Firefox Flashblock.

That is cool cause I can't run it anymore on my desktop with all the anti cheats and Open_GL crap you have to install to play it , well it's not worth it anymore. I use to really love this game. I've tried Quake live but it just isn't the same.

I know that this is all good news for the development of browsers and the future of the internet, but I can't help but feel let down by the general hype of 'WOW, I can play really old games on my new thingy' that seems to cover all forms of technology today. I want to see new things to get excited about, not a rehash of old stuff.

sweet bajesus. Hope some l33t hax are released for this.

Still the best multiplayer FPS IMO

it's just a proof of concept with what html5/webgl can do, it was easier to do because some of the work was done for them already (from an existing port of the quake 2 engine to java) you can't expect a ton of work writing something from scratch to show off the in-working version of some standards, heck, this is more than what you typically see for a poof-of-concept, it's a full, working game (even if an old one)

Interesting... I'll wait till they port WoW to chrome ^^

Open GL was dropped by M$ on purpose to push their proprietary piece of crap, Direct X and to kill Linux gaming.

Cool. First Quake Live, now this? Awesome!!!

I'd love for there to be a wide variety of HTML5 games (on a quick search I only found blocks and a couple demos).
Though, how easy/difficult is it to use?
Sites such as Newgrounds have evolved around flash because of its relative ease of use to make games.

The Firefox Minefield browser has built in OpenGL features so it should be possible run quake on it without any particular plugins.

Hmmmmm grabs a voodoo 2 and slots it in with vista 32 drivers then plays the game it was meant to be played. A e7200 at 3.6ghz isn't slow.

Erm... HTML 5 has been around longer than flash? lol.

Html 5 is a great idea, but flash isn't particularly evil either imo. Sucks to be an apple user.

Here's hoping I'm back to fragging everyday. This was the best online FPS of all time. And the sheer number of maps and mods were insane. Lithium, Chaos Deathmatch, Rune's with Lithium. Maybe they can port the original Unreal tournament also. I'd never sleep again. These new games might look pretty but they are not half as fun to play. These days it's been Killing Floor that's been filling the gap, for me that is. And at the end of the day all a man really needs is to get in touch with his violent side. You feel me?

Couldn't agree more. Best FPS ever. Lithium+ hook mod were great.

Maybe you are right... I think I am just a little bored of the rumour mill over the last 6 months.

wow, so after 13 years of technical advancements in hardware, we have managed to create a method of playing quake barely as fast as it would have been when it originally came out on 13 year old hardware...

round of applause there I think...

wasn't it google who said "even though hardware is getting better, software is getting more bloated at an even faster rate, net result, SLOWER programs"

and then they go and do this...

no really, my mind is boggled by the progress...

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