How do I play test a TADS webui game?

[ChristopherMerriner (Christopher)]

This TADS WebUI thing has always confused the hell out of me. For the similarly confused, this thread does cast a bit of light on it:

Issue running TADS on my PC

Well, AFAIK it’s the only TADS terp that can run web games, but it’s exactly that part that doesn’t work on modern systems. So… tough call. The issue is that it needs Internet Explorer to run web games, and it uses Flash. For non-web games, it should be fine though.

Note Dan Fabulich’s assertion that “No modern OS/browser can play WebUI TADS 3 files in 2022”, which suggests it’s a dead end to develop a game for WebUI in any case (I have no idea if he’s right though).