Halo Status, a live/real-time Halo server status script

I'm not allowed to post images here yet so preview image one and preview image two.

I wanted a Halo server status script a while back and couldn't find any half-decent ones so I decided to put my own together and use it as a chance to have a toy with Javascript and jQuery.

This has been sitting on my machine for a very long time, waiting for other Halo projects to be completed that would have given the script access to more statistics to go on the tabs. Since there's a chance that said projects will never see the light of day, I've decided to just release the script as is rather than let it go to waste.

Features:

• Real-time (well, close enough) updating.


• A degree of animation.


• Sound cues for certain events (scoring, for example).


• Supports all player/game flags.


• Zombies support.


• A fairly flexible query/parsing script that you could use to for your own scripts (server information signatures, for example). IP/port go in, associative array comes out.

Demo:
http://osvex.com/halostatus/
Direct link example: http://osvex.com/halostatus/#s=46.249.47.12:2332

There's further information and an extended F.A.Q. in the readme.txt if anybody actually wishes to make use of it.

Download here. - ~15mb as it has PSDs included, minus the one for the main design (forever lost).
Edited by Btcc22 on Dec 30, 2012 at 09:02 PM

Not bad, not bad.
You might want to host all css and js locally instead of using GAPI's though. GAPI is terribly slow. Also, your javascript could be optimized a bit.

Yeah, I don't doubt it. Is there anything in particular you think is poorly optimised? ;)

As for using Google to host jQuery, I would ordinarily agree, although not on the grounds of it being slow; I've never encountered speed issues with their CDN.

Please don't autoplay sound (e.g. I almost crapped my pants when it said "Capture the Flag"), autoplay is terrible no matter where you use it, I may suggest having sound off by default and having the user enable it with a button?

It's a nice webapp, I'd always wanted to make something similar but never spent the time. Good work!

That was originally the plan but I suppose I never got around to it. This is the first time I've broken the golden rule of not playing audio but at the same time, I don't believe it's much of an issue in this case.

This is great. Any way I can donate to this?

No donations required, thanks though. :)