Taking Advantage of the Steam Browser

[Renegade]

This is serving as a note to myself and to gauge interest...
Steam's recent sprucing up of the overlay and browser presents new opportunities for an interface for HLDJ. Using a light webserver, it's possible to generate all sorts of HTML as a rich interface, and I am toying with the idea of implementing the audio list there. Currently I'm leaning against it since the console is faster and there's really no need for it to be "pretty"; however other novel things can still be done, for example updating a webpage based on the currently playing song so that others can view it. Or running an HLDJ "bot" that users can interact with via a webpage to request a song.
Just some ambitious ideas.

[uggron]

That sounds really cool. A sorta delux version of HLDJ. Yeah, the console works fine and is faster, but this would probably more user-friendly while possibly at the same time allowing better control of HLDJ. You could have both console and overlay versions in one version or available in separate downloads. Would this be HLDJ 2.0 then?

[Renegade]

I think if the plug-in interface ever gets past the todo list, it'll finally push it to 2.0. Then extras like this, overlays, global hotkeys, etc can be added as optional plug-ins.

[uggron]

Well I definitely like the idea.