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How about having the unique id include a hash (md5 or sha-1) of the app's first release .pnd ? Or something equally unlikely to cause clashes.

The slowness of firefox 3 on a 300mhz CPU might have to do with Cairo rendering. Although it sounds weird, as I remember running Firefox 3 on a 300mhz PII and it was almost usable. Arora was much better and dillo was the fastest, but almost as bad as elinks at rendering. We'll get fast...

The last time I tried swfdec (0.8?) it worked perfectly for all the video websites I threw at it. If all else fails, a small greasemonkey script can rewrite most embedded flash videos to use the native video plugin (vlc, mplayer, gstreamer).

I'd like an actual 12-15" laptop with a "ARM inside" sticker on it.

Whatever is chose, please don't make it look like every other shooter out there. World of Padman and Warsaw ar good examples of breaking from the general blandness.

The main advantage of FLAC is that you can later decide to encode in a different format and you won't lose any quality. It's not that useful and LAME mp3s and ogg vorbis (oga) sound about the same with average gear and ears.

Actually, the reason not to use Java is that it's a pretty bad language. Why not choose a more powerful and expressive one? The whole OpenJDK fiasco will probably get fixed at some point, so it's not that big a deal.

The Bespin guys came to the conclusion that since jQuery helps with DOM stuff, it is not very useful when rendering on a <canvas> and used Prototype instead. Dojo could also be a good choice if you like it.

I've tried my hand at a javascript-only game with some success before and I've been thinking about <canvas> use. I would have used flash if not for the unpleasantness of developing, crashy runtimes and general lock-in and closeness.

I think you`re all worrying too much. If a developer cares about their software running slightly faster on the slightly slower hardware, they will make sure it does. Trying to force developers (or people in general for that matter) will not make them care more about something.

Yes, it is quite slow. In an ideal world, you`d be using <canvas> for drawing, but only Firefox 3, Opera 9 and new enough webkit (Chrome 1.0, Safari 3). There is ExCanvas for IE CODE http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ , but users would have to install it. [EDIT] I was wrong about ExCanvas, you...

I found that JSON is sometimes easier to integrate and can be edited by hand if needed. But SQLite is great if JSON (or, $DEITY forbid, XML) is too slow. Almost as easy to integrate and is much faster.