Re: browser based game development

zircher wrote:

I'm a standalone applications programmer.  So, it is not obvious to me
that AJAX requires a server.

Then please read the full description of AJAX before you ask any more basic questions.

Why can't a local web page, viewed in a
browser call a local script or exe to perform a calculation and return
the result back to the web page? 

Because JavaScript cannot call local programs.

To run locally you would need to provide a small basic web server that could process the CGI game logic.

I've seen similar capabilities with
pure javascript in a serverless environment.


Where?

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