GUI Question

[MoLAoS]

I am currently working on testing the integration of an HTML/CSS GUI using libRocket.

I am not at the point where it would be useful for people to contribute models or mods and such, but I just have a general question about how much use this feature would see. No point in setting it up if open source or modding people aren't interested.

How many of you guys can use web standard languages and how many would prefer to use those system for GUI creation? I am using a heavily modified version of the Glest Advanced Engine which currently uses WxWidgets and only really has the ability to modify positions of elements available to non-programmers. I am fairly comfortable with the source for this but its not very user friendly.

Would you be more likely to contribute to an open source project which allowed HTML/CSS and possibly Javascript/JQuery GUIs to be made as opposed to actual programming or GUI libraries with their own XML or scripting?

Ideally you would get not only styling and positioning but be able to grab data from the actual program. So to make a mod you could choose to display only the unit/faction/player stats which your mod used as opposed to all the stats the game engine provided.

[Crendgrim]

I assume most people who are visiting these forums are mainly into Wesnoth. You might get more answers if you post this at the FreeGameDev forums (if you did not already do so; at a quick glance I couldn't see a similar thread).

[MoLAoS]

I assume most people who are visiting these forums are mainly into Wesnoth. You might get more answers if you post this at the [url=http://forum.freegamedev.net/]FreeGameDev forums[/ur] (if you did not already do so; at a quick glance I couldn't see a similar thread).

True but these are the game development forums no? Kinda the reason I picked this forum? I don't need modders or contributors, I just wonder how much appeal using HTML has over engine specific formats.

[Crendgrim]

Well, this here is merely a section of the Wesnoth forums (mostly used for speaking about other games, thus probably not even read by the majority of people visiting the forums — this is just my guess, though). I am just saying that there might be more interested people in the general free game development forums.

[MoLAoS]

Well, this here is merely a section of the Wesnoth forums (mostly used for speaking about other games, thus probably not even read by the majority of people visiting the forums — this is just my guess, though). I am just saying that there might be more interested people in the general free game development forums.

I registered and posted there, but they take forever to approve posts. There aren't really a lot of places to discuss this idea outside of specific open source game forums. Barely anyone reads the Glest forums and although they had a discussion at 0 A.D. it wasn't super popular.

There really aren't many active generic open source/modding forums. FGD doesn't look that active imo.