SwiftKit for Firefox
SwiftKit is a client that is used by approximately 40,000 RuneScape users daily, and that count is slowly rising. While that count is impressive, we beleive we have room for improvement as there are a significant number of users who are not in the loop, due to technical or personal reasons. We believe we can change this with a client we have in development, simply, called SwiftKit FF.
SwiftKit Firefox will be an extensive addon which you can load into Firefox which can, and will assist RuneScape users, while keeping within a browser they feel comfortable with. It will be similar to SwiftKit RS, but with subtle differences, ones which we think our users will like.
SwiftKit Statistics
One feature for SwiftKit we've always wanted to add was a way to count the current active users. We tried a number of methods a few years ago but all were unsuccessful, mainly due to not putting the proper thought required into the process. This time however, we stood back, looked at what needed to be done and took our available resources into account.
If we had a big beefy dedicated server at our disposal the implementation of such a feature would most likely of been quite trivial. A simple connection between SwiftKit and the server with a ping pong type system to validate connectivity would of been fine, then we could of just counted the number of connections and voila. The problem was we knew the number of SwiftKit users at any given time would be anywhere between 5 and 20 thousand. So we couldn't do the method mentioned above on the resources that were available to us.