Taking Advantage of the Steam Browser
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:58 pm
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.
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.