Dawn of the Geeks

Since Microsoft did away with the XBM graphics format used by Javascript to render dynamic images, I decided to create a version of Wolf5K that uses a table with X by Y cells to represent the screen. Each cell represents a pixel and the color of the cell was changed to render the graphics. This was successful and it was playable at a 32×32 resolution on FireFox. It’s not playable on IE because it’s too slow.

I then fired up FireFox and tried to view the original tutorials on this site. It runs them just fine. I think FireFox removed the XBM format previously but it’s there now with the latest release.

So in summary, IE doesn’t support XBM and the alternate method which works on FireFox is too slow on IE. So I won’t bother posting the source for the alternate version.

If you don’t have FireFox and would like to view the JavaScript 3D tutorials in the “Real Time Software Rendering Section” click the “Get FireFox” botton off to the left.

No so surprisingly, after a quick check, FireFox has still failed to fix their caching problem. As a result the JavaScript 3D tutorials still don’t render properly in FireFox. The only browser known to support them at any point was Internet Explorer. Wolf5K sort of works with FireFox.