HTML Suggestion: Please make HTML-based start with index.html.

[xcvista]

As the title suggest, I am suggesting that the landing page of an HTML game should always be index.html (or index.htm if you need 8.3 conformity.) This would make the game a proper website, making deployments much easier. And yes I do deploy the HTML games before playing. Since I put most of my downloads on a storage server with a Web interface for access, HTML games often ended up being deployed on it (instead of simply be stored as files) under addresses like http://10.22.144.2/apps/name-of-your-game/. This allows me to play HTML based games on my iPad.

How do you guys think, playing HTML games as deployed websites, and pleading creators to follow that use case?

 

[Alcahest]

Why don't you just rename it to index.html yourself?

 

[xcvista]

Why don't you just rename it to index.html yourself?

Some games have scripts that references the landing page address, making it non-renameable. So it is either avoid coding landing page name in any scripts, or keep it index.html.

 

[Alcahest]

Some games have scripts that references the landing page address, making it non-renameable. So it is either avoid coding landing page name in any scripts, or keep it index.html.

Then just open the html-file and rename all references.

 

[xcvista]

Then just open the html-file and rename all references.

Just try to read a minified Javascript file and you will see that is virtually undoable. Page references an even be calculated, which requires a full debugger to find out.