We just released PMOG version .419 and it’s awesome. Soon, PMOG .5 will be released, and you will only be able to play PMOG on Firefox 3 (or Flock 2).
For PMOG .5, we move crates and mines and portals and missions into XUL overlays. XUL overlays? Basically, PMOG events will be more of a part of the browser window, where we can make more rich interaction. Currently PMOG events are a part of a page you’re looking at. For example here is a PMOG portal on top of the US Postal Service Web page:
That PMOG portal is a part of the HTML of that web page. We pasted in a bit of PMOG at the end of the file that makes the Postal Service web page appear. All the links and datapoints and allies and rivals of PMOG are little HTML packages injected into the pages you’ve been browsing with our extension.
So HTML injections were an exciting way to bring you plenty of PMOG through Firefox for the first part of this year. For the rest of this year, we’re looking forward to some hottt new tech.
Firefox 3 was just released in June 2008. It manages memory better. It loads pages faster. And it has expanded tools for extension developers to make cool stuff in the browser. Maybe even cooler than canvascape though that is still pretty cool.
Taking advantage of the eXULent display powers of Firefox 3 (or FF3 here) requires a PMOG rewrite. We can devise an extension that supports both FF2 and FF3 players at once, where the same types of PMOG events happen. But for the size of a company we are, and the scale of the things we are eager to build, we can’t write two PMOGs at once. There can be only one.
The best thing: this shift from FF2 to FF3 will actually help us build fun faster. I asked Marc Adams, our Senior Developer why he was excited to ditch support for Firefox 2, he replied: “FF3 allows us to prototype new ideas quickly both visually and from a data perspective. What required extensive coding in FF2 is reduced significantly in FF3.”
Here at PMOG we live a lot of our lives online; we’re honored that you folks invite us to play with you throughout the day. We expect this upcoming .5 release will give you more reliable, more flexible, more p mog. So if you haven’t already, see if you can give FF3 a try. Hopefully it will works for your playful life online.
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July 24th, 2008 at 18:08
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August 4th, 2008 at 13:57
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