[sldev] Browser in Secondlife Viewer

[Giff Constable]

I wanted to speak to a few of the emails going back and forth on  
this.  Yes, the OnRez viewer is under a commercial license, and yes I  
know some people are upset about the fact that Linden Lab created a  
dual licensing structure.  We (ESC) are trying to find a happy middle  
ground in terms of contributing to the community and pursuing our  
business goals. We do not view ourselves as outside of developer  
ecosystem around Second Life.  At this early stage, it's hard to be  
more specific than that. We have contributed bug fixes in past and  
are confirming with Linden Lab right now that continued contributions  
to the open source community will not mess with the commercial  
license LL offers.

We are designing the OnRez viewer for the mass market, and have no  
*immediate* plans for a Linux release but there's no question that  
Linux market share is growing and we have a fair share of Linux fans  
internally. Our 1.0 release, timed with the CSI launch, has gotten a  
great response from new users, but I don't expect that power SL users  
or highly technical folks to necessarily respond the same way. We've  
only just started of course.

Tateru is right that we did very little extra on top of the browser  
code in the code base.  Most of work for 1.0 was really around re- 
skinning the UI and menus, and supporting a sharding system. Now that  
the initial push is complete, we are prioritizing next steps as we  
speak.

Regards,
Giff (Forseti Svarog)


On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:21 AM, Robin Cornelius wrote:

> On Nov 7, 2007 5:04 AM, Kundanv Indigo <sekundlife at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>>      Can anybody help me out!!!!
>>  In the OnRez viewer, how they brought up a web page in a SL window.
>> I would like to know the functionality they used for it.
>> Suggestions are welcome, and I request you  all to guide me in  
>> this regard.
>>
>
> As for how, its a floater with llmozlib inside (same as login front
> page). Looking at the supplied dll's the xml files and the way the
> browser responds , its llmozlib.
>
> Now sure how integrated they have gone but i would have though i many
> cases it would be a right pain in the ass having the browser in the
> same window. As having a seperate browser open either full screen and
> just switch between the browser and viewer, or having the browser and
> viewer on different desktops on linux or i even use it o n a dual head
> display with viewer one side web pages etc other.
>
> Robin
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Giff Constable
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Skype: giffforseti
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