HTML Pages inworld .... almost
There's a new release candidate viewer in town and some nifty, but under development features. Hence there's a picture of me reading this blog inworld! Well not this blog entry because I took the picture before I blogged...you know what I mean! Unfortunately I can't scroll down, comment or blog from there but it does have potential for displaying objects inworld.
Now the limitations, and there are limitations are that you have to play media to see this, so at the moment it's not good if you're looking to put HTML on a prim and keep it there, you can only replace one texture at a time for your parcel. If you're looking to use this as a teaching tool for your own slides and store them on your own website, it's going to be troublesome for now, but it can be done.
Now as this is only available on a per parcel basis, it means I can't distribute Y2P in HTML format around the grid for everyone to read whilst browsing my land rental store for property to rent!
However it is a step, albeit a small one, in a long overdue direction and I like it. However I'm also easily pleased, I've been here a year now, well 6th March was my join date and this has really tickled my fancy. I hope it goes in the direction I'm hoping it will, notecards just don't cut the mustard when you want to give someone something to read.
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Ah, but you CAN blog from in-world...
... and I don't mean BLOGHud, either.
If you set the HTML-on-a-prim to 'open' - clicking on it will open that web page in the INTERNAL html viewer.
The 'internal' browser is the same one they use for the in-world help and search features - and is resizable.
So, technically...
(Oh, Nobody - "WindLight" as a codeword is dead now. It's all RC from here on out. But you knew that already.) ;-)
LOL
Ari Blackthorne
Nope, didn't know that.
PITA when they change names and don't actually inform the users forced to upgrade.
As far as blogging inworld... what's the point? :-)
Second Life Consultant
Good stuff.
When they have a Windlight release, I'll be all over this. I'll cut up perfectly good plots of land to create 16m web pages... (just kidding)..
I'm wondering if they're using the Quicktime back end to do this. ;-)
Second Life Consultant
Mozilla.
I missed that at the bottom of the article they mentioned that the HTML on a prim is Mozilla driven.
Yikes. I may actually be getting some of the features I want down the road without having filed a single JIRA. That rocks. :-)
Second Life Consultant
Having seen it now...
I do believe that they're using Quicktime to do this. Screen capture, then texture, then quicktime. Like some people used to do RSS feeds.
Second Life Consultant
It will be an awesome
It will be an awesome feature down the road when it advances a bit. I totally agree.