What Is the Deal with Online TADS 3?

[jnelson (Jim Nelson)]

@StJohnLimbo wrote a nice post last year that does a nice job of summarizing the TADS / HTML situation:

Issue running TADS on my PC

So, just to make this clear for third parties who might be reading along or stumbling upon the thread later. From a player’s perspective, there are three sorts of TADS games around: Pure text-based games without any special formatting (or only using old-school TADS formatting sequences), without multimedia adornment, and playable locally offline in a pure text interpreter without multimedia capabilities (in a console, for example). HTML/Multimedia TADS games: they can be purely textual, b…