[sldev] [VWR] What about Dillo

[Robin Cornelius]

SL - Farallon Greyskin wrote:
> It would NOT be for displaying YouTube or Amazon some other huge media
> heavy scripted out the yin yag pages. It would be for displaying very
> simple CUSTOM pages to be able to acess offline content like pictures
> for products slide shows (access probably 50 times faster than the asset
> server!) and putting custom text and other changeable content on a prim
> face. And that alone would be a god send feature!
> 
> I would love a tiny barely capable (and 99.999% non vulnerable) prim
> face web content. In fact to hell with dillo, even the features to
> display simple text and images streamed from the web or from a notecard
> using say 4 standard html tags (something that could be written in a
> weeks time) would probably be even better. Less to go wrong.
> 

Well we have everything we need to do this now, i know llmozlib is a
little heavy but its there now and it works. Could even run it with out
javascript etc.

it should (in principle) easy to just grab a page and then get a texture
from that page that can be rendered directly on the prim. Screw mouse
interaction and clicking, hyperlinks etc lets just get images of web
pages rendering to start with, it can be built on later if desired.

Looking at the ubrowser code it already shows us how to grab a page and
access the image, its even rendered on to a GL surface.

I would quite like to try this, perhaps using the description field of
the prim as the web address, eg if it starts http:// then send a request
to mozlib BUT i just can't see how to put all the peices together as I
am not familiar enough with openGL and the inner workings of the viewer.

I presume that we actually need another prim flag to say web texture as
i assume the description field is fetched on demand rather than streamed.

But the point is the tools are there they just need using.

Robin

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