theWulfen 2 – Blog

Never gets any easier

Blimey, life doesn’t get any easier does it!  I’ve had loads of high pressure jobs on at work, a few private sites that seem to be taking an age and loads of people breaking computers.  Chuck in internet explorer 8 and a number of common libraries that I use breaking and being updated and time seems to have vanished.  Up shot is that I have done no direct work on w2 for another 3 months.  At this rate I’m going to be retiring by the time I get it running…

I have however managed to find time to experiment with various map generation methods.  One possibility that I derived was using a canvas element.  This would work innately in FireFox and Google Chrome, but would need a hack for IE.  There is also a memory leak where a page refresh doesn’t clear the memory used by the canvas, so I’ve largely put that to one side as not being viable.  However I have generated a file progressive-downloader routine that would allow me to ‘prepare’ the images into an object and display a nice ‘loading’ progress bar.