I decided to take my SVG Solitaire game and make it into FreeCell, the game that comes with Microsoft Windows. Click here to play. Requires IE+ASV, Firefox 1.5 or Opera 9 TP2
It took roughly 30 minutes to change Solitaire into FreeCell, then over 1 hour to debug stupid/silly errors. I was pretty tired last night, but that’s probably a pretty good breakdown of the software development process (X minutes to design/code, at least 2X to test). Of course it still probably has some minor bugs here and there (please let me know) and I know the layout could use some work. Very playable in IE+ASV, but dragging cards is still pretty slow in Firefox 1.5 and Opera 9 TP2.
Strange, but I can only see the initial screen per Opera with the prepared places for cards, but there is no interaction.
Ahh.. Maybe this is because I am using Opera 8.0 at the moment.. I will upgrade my software ASAP.
2006-03-24 @ 7:49 PM
It seems that Opera 9 is still in development.
However I could successfully launch this game in Firefox 1.5. Anyway I still faced a problem - Queens and Jays are not shown (no Q and J letters on the cards).
2006-03-24 @ 8:07 PM
Hi Archatas, as per my original post: “Requires IE+ASV, Firefox 1.5 or Opera 9 TP2″
Firefox has issues in SVG text that cause some text to be hard to read. I recommend maximizing your browser window, this might help solve your problem.
2006-03-24 @ 8:52 PM
Yep. Fullscreen (F11) solved the text rendering problem in Firefox.
Cool job anyway… Do you have some larger projects with SVG for the future in your mind? Do you find SVG a perspective technology?
2006-03-25 @ 6:23 PM
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2007-08-08 @ 4:37 PM
stelt - thanks, can you tell me what browser fails this? I don’t see such an error in either Fx2, O9 or Safari 3…
2007-08-08 @ 8:04 PM
Not a browser: http://validator.w3.org
2007-08-09 @ 3:12 PM