Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170916104500/@comment-32647310-20170920160658

Martirsadota wrote:

Not really. Flash communicates to the server in a way that is shared with HTML5 (or more precisely, the JavaScript code that would be behind the HTML5 tech that eventually presents the game to the player). Fair enough. As mentioned, I can't code my way out of a wet paper sack...and I know just enough about IT and such to be dangerous (as in, I know what certain things do, how they work and may accidentally break them because I don't know what the f**k I'm doing XD).



Martirsadota wrote:Again, no major impact. I don't think they'd change the way KC communicates with the servers in a major way to ease migration, and since communication would remain the same, viewers should have minimal problems adapting.

KC3 and poi should come off the least affected since they are based on Chrome/Chromium which already supports HTML5; my concern is EO and KCV since AFAIK they rely on Microsoft's components to display web pages, which IIRC is based off IE; not sure if that's HTML5-compliant (maybe on Win8+?) Yeah, I figure they wouldn't change much on this end for the same reasons.

As far as viewers go, that's the exact reason why I moved off of KCV to KC3. While I do like KCV a bit better in some ways, I know it uses IE as the browser source and my understanding is that even though more modern versions of IE are compatable with HTML5, support for KCV is all but nonexistant (newest version I have found was put out over a year ago or so).

Either way, the more I think about it (and with this conversation), the more I realize that most players won't have a problem, and any problems that do crop up will be mitigated in short order.