EVE Introduces "Moondoggie"

EVE players are being introduced to the game's new in-game browser code named "Moondoggie". Surf through to the other side to see Moondoggie hang ten.

We've long desired to provide a full-flavored Web Experience in tandem with EVE. When we first added a browser to the game, we unearthed a vast seascape of possibilities. Many of you already enjoy the services of in-game browser-driven sites, like eve-igbtools.com, the Jump Planner, or the numerous alliance-management IGB sites.

Now imagine what you could cook up if you had the same ability to enmesh EVE with the Web, but inside a browser that can do everything else a standalone web browser can do - Javascript, DHTML, stylesheets. Say hello to the new IGB, code-named "Moondoggie"!

Yeah, dude, and why not throw in a tenfold performance boost while you're at it?

It's a hefty wave to catch, but our browser has already been Atlas for five years - the IGB is perched atop a custom-written HTML parsing and rendering system. While a noble technical endeavor, this leaves to us the tasks of upgrading and extending the IGB to match the ever-shifting currents of the HTML standard. Hardly the best way for us to serve you, the player!

But, like Atlas, we now have two Pillars upon which to rest these burdens.

Read the rest of the article at the link provided. Later, dude!

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Oh CCP, you are so crazy, but in a way that delights me to no end.

While this is great to see and I rather enjoyed the fact that EVE had an in-game browser, I'd still love to see the opposite too. EVE that is partly playable in a browser - manage skills, check markets, chat, etc...