In a different post I was talking about figuring out a way to wake up players and/or make it easier to realize it was your turn, so here's my idea. Take the tabs from the Community page, and make them into weewar game tabs.

From this:

... to this ... 

Whomever designed the weewar ui did a very good job. There are lots of great reusable pieces and the Community tabs are just one example. Hopefully, this would lessen the load on the server by NOT needing to refresh the whole page, just the tab.

Every little bit of bandwith savings and reducing hits on the server will be exponetially better, especially with the crazy growth and traffic and more frequent patches. 

tabs is overkill a firefox plugin with notification will work better then changing the interface.

Ooooh, an FF plug-in is a great idea ... then again I could actually pull off changing the interface (if asked as it's just CSS and xHTML).

Now, writing a plug-in for FF, ummm anyone got a manual as I've never done it. 

but what if u have 30 games going .... that is alot of tabs

I like the subtle way ALex/Bert added the notification to Headquarters Tab. Most people have not noticed it, but when its your turn a number next to "Headquarters" appears. The number corresponds to the how many games require your attention.

I did see that, but often times that doesn't refresh correctly when you have serveral games open in several FF tabs.

Though I gues it would not work if you had 30 games going ... holy crap ... how can you keep track of all those games. No wonder we're always waiting one you!

You know, if the order of the tabs worked like the HQ did (games in which its your turn) and would stack on top. So the first tab would always be the game you're currently playing, and the next tabs would be the next game requiring your attention. You could also add a paging widget, like this ...

true, but the way HQ tab update does not work sometimes is also the reason the tabing would not work. A limit of the technology being implemented.

but at least it would be happening all in the same place ... what technology IS weewar running on Java? Ruby? PHP?

ajax

but dont know what server side language might be involve

well I love the idea of tabs... It's such a convinient way of arranging your games A FF plugin would also be cool (or a Growl Plugin for our nice Mac users... that'd be DMN cool) but I'd rather go with the tabs because nitifications could maybe also be done with a flashing FF tab if WeeWar needs your attention and then when you click on it you can fast do whatever needs to be done fast over the tabs.

Ratioswitch, you're a f-ing genius. I love the tabs. Love it! Weewar would be ten times better with it.

Thx Peaceful ... errr I mean Blissful

heheh... If you have firefox, you already have in-game tabs. You just need to do a little extra mouse clicking. Plus, the page title adn tab title gets updated when its your turn. I open all active games into tabs when playing.

Yeah, and here's a keyboard shortcut for all of you FF users ... to access the 3rd FF tab, hit CTRL and 3 (for us Mac users, that's CMD and 3). To go to tab 1, CMD and 1 ... easy, fast, and fun.