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Dev Blog: Bidding Farewell to the In-game Browser

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CCP Logibro
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1 - 2016-06-20 16:24:07 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Phantom
It's been limping along for a while, but it's finally time to say au revoir to the In-game Browser. Read more details on why we're putting it out to pasture and how we'll handle URLs in the client in the future in this dev blog by CCP FoxFour.

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CCP Alpha
C C P
C C P Alliance
#2 - 2016-06-20 16:40:15 UTC
o7
CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
#3 - 2016-06-20 16:41:12 UTC
o7 Good bye IGB.

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Longdrinks
Zero Fun Allowed
xqtywiznalamywmodxfhhopawzpqyjdwrpeptuaenabjawdzku
#4 - 2016-06-20 16:41:28 UTC
ill keep the igb and his family in my prayers tonite
Oliver Ward
Doomheim
#5 - 2016-06-20 16:41:34 UTC
Even knowing that it was coming, it's still a hard hit to handle.

Good luck to all the third-party devs out there!
Alphax45
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2016-06-20 16:41:36 UTC
But the dank memes! Did you think of the dank memes!!!?!?!?
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2016-06-20 16:42:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6637
IGB is scheduled to die on my birthday

Quote:
We are a games company and our focus is on making EVE as great a game as we can.

This is a very good point and I think it's the only justification needed.

Help, I can't download EVE

President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub

PLEX: A Giffen good? (It's 1B?)
HyperFlareX
Perkone
Caldari State
#8 - 2016-06-20 16:42:40 UTC
Another overlay alternative would be Evolve's overlay.

That said, I'm sad the IGB is going, seeing as we only used it for ingame stuff anyway (and GIFs. Can't forget the gifs!)

DOTLAN, our mapper, etc. Are going to be much less convenient now Straight

The convenience of having a small window that can be quickly managed is not going to be met by a normal browser, which will run in its own window.
CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
#9 - 2016-06-20 16:45:35 UTC
HyperFlareX wrote:
Another overlay alternative would be Evolve's overlay.

That said, I'm sad the IGB is going, seeing as we only used it for ingame stuff anyway (and GIFs. Can't forget the gifs!)

DOTLAN, our mapper, etc. Are going to be much less convenient now Straight

The convenience of having a small window that can be quickly managed is not going to be met by a normal browser, which will run in its own window.


Thanks for sharing Evolve. I didn't know about it.

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Obil Que
Star Explorers
Solis Tenebris
#10 - 2016-06-20 16:45:43 UTC
Prepare the tear bucket!

It certainly will be an adjustment as there is a lot of ease of use in working with third-party software like wormhole mappers, etc inside the EVE client vs. a second screen (if available). Will definitely be trying out how it works in practice to get used to it now.
Tweety Bird
Tackled In Belt
#11 - 2016-06-20 16:47:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Tweety Bird
Attention
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
Coalition of the Unfortunate
#12 - 2016-06-20 16:49:07 UTC
RIP horrible in game browser.

While you're at it... can someone please fix the godawful way of entering URLs into the dialog boxes? Really want to be able to just select a piece of text and click the URL button and it changes it to a URL...
Dex Cordell
EVE University
Ivy League
#13 - 2016-06-20 16:49:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Dex Cordell
good-bye opening fittings and contracts ingame from a simple link. hello extra effort with a) rebuilding sites that contained them and b) either finding a user friendly way around it or sifting through the cumbersome ingame interface (for contracts especially).

suggestion: keep the linking functionality somehow preserved in a way where people would copy an ingame formatted link from an external source into some kind of command box and that would open up the item people looked for, fits, contracts...

suggestion, addendum: expand the above to include shopping lists, and possibly more...
Darkblad
#14 - 2016-06-20 16:54:21 UTC
Funk yeah!

over to

%lt;url=showinfo:42225>Capsule - Genolution 'Auroral' 197-variant Palatine Serenity Only SKIN (365 Days)%lt;/url>

NPE-ISD-Übersetzt!
Dominous Nolen
The Graduates
The Initiative.
#15 - 2016-06-20 16:58:56 UTC
RIP IGB.. Honestly this has been expected for a long time, sad to see it happening though because it is useful in alot of ways (especially in wormhole space for mapping)

@dominousnolen

"Fly dangerously, Fly safe, Fly whatever, just keep Flying." - Lee Blackwood
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
Coalition of the Unfortunate
#16 - 2016-06-20 17:00:37 UTC
Question: Will opening the link in a new browser kick full-screen clients into windowed mode or will it stay frameless?

I personally always run in window mode, but I know it's not the default configuration.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#17 - 2016-06-20 17:00:59 UTC
RIP IGB. You were good in your time, but it's time to lay down your burden.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter
CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
#18 - 2016-06-20 17:01:37 UTC
Dominous Nolen wrote:
RIP IGB.. Honestly this has been expected for a long time, sad to see it happening though because it is useful in alot of ways (especially in wormhole space for mapping)



There is a new CREST resource for tracking a characters location which means that can be done from outside the client and no need for the IGB, :D

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Huang Mo
Tianxia Inc
#19 - 2016-06-20 17:02:35 UTC
Please add a CREST interface for create-contract. Like the CCPEVE.createContract javascript call in the IGB

At times I'm doing 150 contracts in a row and it would be near impossible to do without some automation. Even 20 contracts can be a pain if you have a large inventory and have to ship stuff from different stations
Dex Cordell
EVE University
Ivy League
#20 - 2016-06-20 17:03:11 UTC
Dominous Nolen wrote:
RIP IGB.. Honestly this has been expected for a long time, sad to see it happening though because it is useful in alot of ways (especially in wormhole space for mapping)



sheesh forgot about that one, goodbye mapper, dotlan...that's gonna generate an uproar.
@CCP: where did you get the usage metrics? there's loads of people who absolutely rely on a variety of ingame browser WH mappers to light their way in a world without maps and autopilot routes. I'll hate being blind past the next wormhole.
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