wxJavaScript started as a project for porting wxWidgets to JavaScript. But now, wxJavaScript has expanded from this initial goal. wxJavaScript has an Apache module mod_wxjs, an SQLite module, and other modules are planned. It is possible to write server side scripts for generating html pages, system scripts or GUI applications.
wxJavaScript uses SpiderMonkey with E4X activated.
wxJavaScript uses SpiderMonkey with E4X activated.
Xenofiction is a class of science fiction or fantasy encompassing stories set among species or cultures extremely different from humanity or human society.
Examples
*Richard Adams' Watership Down, set in the warrens of rabbits in the English countryside.
*Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing, telling the story of a colony of silverwing bats.
*Erin Hunter's Warrior Cats series about the fantasty adventures of a wild clan of forest cats.
*Brian Jacques' Redwall, in which is set in the forest and castles of heroic mice, ferrets, badgers and other forest creatures. Redwall is the first of the 19 novels.
* Kathryn Lasky' Guardians of Ga'Hoole, it's the story of an owl and his friends.
*M. I. McAllister's The Mistmantle Chronicles, tell the story of a young squirrel named Urchin.
*Parts of Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land have been called xenofiction.
*The second part of Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves, which describes an alien culture with three sexes, the Rational, the Emotional, and the Parental.
*C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun Trilogy, comprised of Kesrith, Shon'jir, and Kutath.
*Mercedes Lackey's Gryphon trilogy: The Black Gryphon, The White Gryphon, and The Silver Griffon. Although these novels contain humans and human interaction, the primary protagonist Skandranon the Black Gryphon and his species are highly intelligent animals who are seen as humanity's equal on many levels.
*The Ecco the Dolphin series, which stars sapient cetaceans and, in the original story line, the Asterite and the Vortex life forms.
*Much of science fiction deals with constructing alien societies. While her aliens are typically humanoid, their cultures are what separates them so completely from humanity as we know it. In the short story collection The Birthday of the World, several such races are discussed. Her stories include a race which only attains a gender when they go into heat, and are otherwise androgynous, as well as a race for which the only form of marriage is a complex system of polygamy.
*Part IV of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels deals with the Houyhnhnm race of horse people and their society.
*In A. K. Dewdney's The Planiverse, Dewdney and his students communicate with the Nsana, who inhabit a two-dimensional universe.
*Robert T. Bakker's novel Raptor Red follows a year in the life of a female Utahraptor.
*Several of Iain M Banks' Culture novels have xenofictional elements, notably Excession, featuring a subculture of sentient spacecraft, and Look to Windward, which includes chapters set within country-sized creatures and their symbiotic populations inhabiting a gas giant.
*A. Bertram Chandler's novella Giant Killer, a nominee for the 1946 "retroactive Hugo" award, is about a race of rats that have achieved sentience as a result of exposure to radiation. However, it is not until the very last line of the novella that the reader learns that the protagonists are rats, rather than humans. As such, the novella represents xenofiction only upon reflection, and not during the initial reading.
*James Tiptree Jr's short story "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death", recounting the life cycle of an alien.
*LEGO's Bionicle series of toys and novels focuses mainly on the Matoran, a biomechanical race of masked humanoid beings, as well as a few other peoples such as the Xians. All of those peoples have different and exotic cultures. Humans do not exist in the Bionicle universe.
*David Clement-Davies's novels, Fire Bringer, and The Sight, about a deer and a wolf, respectively.
*C.S.Lewis's novel Out of the Silent Planet, which describes the planet of Malacandra (Mars), inhabited by three types of creatures: the hrossa, who seem to resemble human beings most closely, and are fond of water and boats; the pfiftriggi, who dig in the earth and work with precious metals, like dwarves; and the seroni, who live in the high places and are more rational than feeling. A hross tells the human visitor that all of them, including the human, are "hnau", which might mean "rational", or even, according to your interpretation, "ensouled".
*The role-playing game World Tree, which focuses on a complex and detailed non-human civilization of eight "Prime" races, with exotic magical abilities that greatly affect their culture.
it:Xenofiction
Examples
*Richard Adams' Watership Down, set in the warrens of rabbits in the English countryside.
*Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing, telling the story of a colony of silverwing bats.
*Erin Hunter's Warrior Cats series about the fantasty adventures of a wild clan of forest cats.
*Brian Jacques' Redwall, in which is set in the forest and castles of heroic mice, ferrets, badgers and other forest creatures. Redwall is the first of the 19 novels.
* Kathryn Lasky' Guardians of Ga'Hoole, it's the story of an owl and his friends.
*M. I. McAllister's The Mistmantle Chronicles, tell the story of a young squirrel named Urchin.
*Parts of Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land have been called xenofiction.
*The second part of Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves, which describes an alien culture with three sexes, the Rational, the Emotional, and the Parental.
*C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun Trilogy, comprised of Kesrith, Shon'jir, and Kutath.
*Mercedes Lackey's Gryphon trilogy: The Black Gryphon, The White Gryphon, and The Silver Griffon. Although these novels contain humans and human interaction, the primary protagonist Skandranon the Black Gryphon and his species are highly intelligent animals who are seen as humanity's equal on many levels.
*The Ecco the Dolphin series, which stars sapient cetaceans and, in the original story line, the Asterite and the Vortex life forms.
*Much of science fiction deals with constructing alien societies. While her aliens are typically humanoid, their cultures are what separates them so completely from humanity as we know it. In the short story collection The Birthday of the World, several such races are discussed. Her stories include a race which only attains a gender when they go into heat, and are otherwise androgynous, as well as a race for which the only form of marriage is a complex system of polygamy.
*Part IV of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels deals with the Houyhnhnm race of horse people and their society.
*In A. K. Dewdney's The Planiverse, Dewdney and his students communicate with the Nsana, who inhabit a two-dimensional universe.
*Robert T. Bakker's novel Raptor Red follows a year in the life of a female Utahraptor.
*Several of Iain M Banks' Culture novels have xenofictional elements, notably Excession, featuring a subculture of sentient spacecraft, and Look to Windward, which includes chapters set within country-sized creatures and their symbiotic populations inhabiting a gas giant.
*A. Bertram Chandler's novella Giant Killer, a nominee for the 1946 "retroactive Hugo" award, is about a race of rats that have achieved sentience as a result of exposure to radiation. However, it is not until the very last line of the novella that the reader learns that the protagonists are rats, rather than humans. As such, the novella represents xenofiction only upon reflection, and not during the initial reading.
*James Tiptree Jr's short story "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death", recounting the life cycle of an alien.
*LEGO's Bionicle series of toys and novels focuses mainly on the Matoran, a biomechanical race of masked humanoid beings, as well as a few other peoples such as the Xians. All of those peoples have different and exotic cultures. Humans do not exist in the Bionicle universe.
*David Clement-Davies's novels, Fire Bringer, and The Sight, about a deer and a wolf, respectively.
*C.S.Lewis's novel Out of the Silent Planet, which describes the planet of Malacandra (Mars), inhabited by three types of creatures: the hrossa, who seem to resemble human beings most closely, and are fond of water and boats; the pfiftriggi, who dig in the earth and work with precious metals, like dwarves; and the seroni, who live in the high places and are more rational than feeling. A hross tells the human visitor that all of them, including the human, are "hnau", which might mean "rational", or even, according to your interpretation, "ensouled".
*The role-playing game World Tree, which focuses on a complex and detailed non-human civilization of eight "Prime" races, with exotic magical abilities that greatly affect their culture.
it:Xenofiction
ZiRC is a small IRC network. It has over 1,000 users online at peak times.
ZiRC began operation as a private network, and opened to the public on 21 March 2001. The un-official irc channel of the Something Awful forums was originally hosted on this network.
ZiRC bans AOL and TTNet users due to their lack of assistance with vandals and spammers on their network. (All bans that were established prior to the split were lost; see below).
On 10 July 2007, most of ZiRC split up due to issues in leadership, with most of the admins and servers creating the synIRC IRC network. Only a single server remains to host the ZiRC network. On 15 July, all channels advertising the new network were banned.
On 25 October 2007, ZiRC went offline.
Committees
* Some regular users form an officially recognized User Committee which handles complaints about network operators.
* A committee of experienced IRC operators form the Routing Committee to manage servers and network security.
* A number of web designers and coders form the Web Committee to maintain the website.
ZiRC began operation as a private network, and opened to the public on 21 March 2001. The un-official irc channel of the Something Awful forums was originally hosted on this network.
ZiRC bans AOL and TTNet users due to their lack of assistance with vandals and spammers on their network. (All bans that were established prior to the split were lost; see below).
On 10 July 2007, most of ZiRC split up due to issues in leadership, with most of the admins and servers creating the synIRC IRC network. Only a single server remains to host the ZiRC network. On 15 July, all channels advertising the new network were banned.
On 25 October 2007, ZiRC went offline.
Committees
* Some regular users form an officially recognized User Committee which handles complaints about network operators.
* A committee of experienced IRC operators form the Routing Committee to manage servers and network security.
* A number of web designers and coders form the Web Committee to maintain the website.
Battalion Wars 2 HQ is an online community dedicated to Battalion Wars 2, a game for the Wii. It was founded on June 4, 2007.
Overview
Battalion Wars 2 HQ, sometimes called BWii HQ, is a good source for information on Battalion Wars 2, as well as a strong community. New information on Battalion Wars 2 is quickly posted to the site, and false information is promptly deleted. Battles and tournaments can be organized and strategy can be discussed. After the game has released, there will most likely be walkthroughs posted, as there is a sub-forum specifically for them.
Forum Wars
Forum Wars were originally started on the GameSpot/GameFAQs discussion boards. The basic idea behind it is that each player will use a template consisting of Battalion Wars 2 units and customize it to their liking. Later, missions will be posted by the MC (Mission Coordinator), and participants will detail their strategies in a Private Message. The strategy consists of what units were bought and what orders were given. The Mission Briefing consists of what units are available, the terrain, the objectives, and the available funds.
Galactic Wars
Galactic Wars is a futuristic take on Forum Wars. Different types of sectors provide different bonuses, along with different Weapons and Propulsion systems. The basic idea remains the same as Forum Wars.
Outfits
Outfits are somewhat like clans. There are currently three active outfits:
Olympus Squadron
Universitas Auctoria
Phoenix (A Sub-outfit of Olympus Squadron)
Each outfit has a private lounge where they may share tactics, hints, and tips. Members of an outfit often are allied in Outfit Wars.
Outfit Wars
Outfit Wars, once Battalion Wars 2 is released, will play out much like a game of Risk. Players (or outfits) will choose which land they would like to start in and which nation (Usable nations are the Solar Empire, the Anglo Isles, the Western Frontier, the Tundran Empire, Xylvania, and the Iron Legion) they will use throughout the entire game. Battles are then fought over Nintendo WiFi Connection and the winner of a series takes over the contested territory. A round ends when one player (Or outfit) has control over the entire "board".
Overview
Battalion Wars 2 HQ, sometimes called BWii HQ, is a good source for information on Battalion Wars 2, as well as a strong community. New information on Battalion Wars 2 is quickly posted to the site, and false information is promptly deleted. Battles and tournaments can be organized and strategy can be discussed. After the game has released, there will most likely be walkthroughs posted, as there is a sub-forum specifically for them.
Forum Wars
Forum Wars were originally started on the GameSpot/GameFAQs discussion boards. The basic idea behind it is that each player will use a template consisting of Battalion Wars 2 units and customize it to their liking. Later, missions will be posted by the MC (Mission Coordinator), and participants will detail their strategies in a Private Message. The strategy consists of what units were bought and what orders were given. The Mission Briefing consists of what units are available, the terrain, the objectives, and the available funds.
Galactic Wars
Galactic Wars is a futuristic take on Forum Wars. Different types of sectors provide different bonuses, along with different Weapons and Propulsion systems. The basic idea remains the same as Forum Wars.
Outfits
Outfits are somewhat like clans. There are currently three active outfits:
Olympus Squadron
Universitas Auctoria
Phoenix (A Sub-outfit of Olympus Squadron)
Each outfit has a private lounge where they may share tactics, hints, and tips. Members of an outfit often are allied in Outfit Wars.
Outfit Wars
Outfit Wars, once Battalion Wars 2 is released, will play out much like a game of Risk. Players (or outfits) will choose which land they would like to start in and which nation (Usable nations are the Solar Empire, the Anglo Isles, the Western Frontier, the Tundran Empire, Xylvania, and the Iron Legion) they will use throughout the entire game. Battles are then fought over Nintendo WiFi Connection and the winner of a series takes over the contested territory. A round ends when one player (Or outfit) has control over the entire "board".