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Re:Minetest for the Web by tech234a on Friday October 14, 2022 @06:08PM (#33209386)
You actually can't override a few of the events such as Control-W [1], however that could easily be fixed by using an alternate keybind for the game instead.

This port uses a proxy for networking, as the main game uses UDP-based networking [2]. Perhaps it would be possible to upstream basic WebSocket/WebRTC packet-wrapping support to the servers in the main Minetest project?

I am also curious about the storage issues.

[1]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...

[2]: https://dev.minetest.net/Engine/Network_Protocol

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Re:Minetest for the Web by hutzlibu on Friday October 14, 2022 @06:15PM (#33209444)
"You actually can't override a few of the events such as Control-W"

I definitely did overwrite it in my app, but I just checked and remembered, that you also have to be in full screen mode.

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Re:Minetest for the Web by paradust on Friday October 14, 2022 @06:48PM (#33209715)
WebRTC data channels would be ideal, so that clients can connect directly to servers (or at least regional proxies) in a UDP-like way. Vanilla minetest would need to include an WebRTC endpoint for this to become universally available. There are lots of details that would need to be worked out.
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Re:Minetest for the Web by harrisi on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:54AM (#33213639)
Although the support isn't amazing [1], I believe you can capture C-w and friends [2].

[1]: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_keyboard

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Keyboard_AP...

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