web ui - create browser client for playing game

[jschmidt10]

create a browser version of the client for playing the game. needs:

• allow specifying which game to join
• display list of players (highlight current leader somehow) with their roles (as seen by the players role)
• give current game status (waiting on votes, waiting for proposal)
• provide send/dont send and pass/fail actions
• display proposal and mission history
• display all missions (how many people, how many fails)

We don't need to do it with HTML5 canvas but that might be a good way to display some nice graphics. Also, HTML5 has the WebSocket which allows the server to push data to the client.

[jschmidt10]

yo chips - I'm not familiar with the WebSocket thing but it sounds potentially promising for the game. I imagine that the web client uses regular AJAX to fire things like Pass/Fails and Send/Dont Send, but then the server establishes a socket with all clients to push data - mainly the progression of the game. So once all clients vote on a mission, the server can use the sockets to tell them all that it's the next round.

Did you do polling in the one you made? What do you think?

[andrewglowacki]

Yea, I think we should use as much of HTML 5/ new ECMA script standard as possible. Yea, in my version I do AJAX polling which isn't as snappy as it could be with web sockets.