[sldev] Browser in Secondlife Viewer

[Robin Cornelius]

On Nov 9, 2007 9:34 AM, Tao Takashi <tao.takashi at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 2007/11/9, Tateru Nino <tateru.nino at gmail.com>:
> > Heck, on the morning the OnRez viewer was released I was able to blog
> > about it - from within the OnRez viewer itself. That was actually quite
> > a cool feeling.
>
> I actually think that it's a great thing to have and I was also proposing
> this here and there as some sort of start to get HTML inside SL. For many
> use cases a simple browser window is actually enough, like for most
> llLoadURL() calls. It is not such a media break as it's if you switch to
> Firefox. So kudo to ESC to showcase this and to publish the code (while I
> don't really get why it's not open source, that's so old school to me ;-)
> One reason though might of course be the management overhead).
>
>
>  Anyway, great to see some move in this area.
>

It would cause a headache if the lindens let it out to the general
public ATM as there are annoyances (as callum linden as previously
pointed out). But its currently great for people who understand the
limitations and have a use for it. Currently we have :-

*No scroll bars on the floater (can still scroll up and down with mouse)
*Drop down html form boxes appear where they like (well a fixed
location actually, but not where they should)
*http auth requests are not handled
*and i can't for the life of me get plugins to work in xulrunner
(java/flash etc)

I think many of these are things that just need implementing in
llmozlib to handle the calls/set up stuff with xulrunner.

I'm certainly shipping it enabled in my 64 bit linux builds and i
wonder if the lindens should consider shipping it but HIDDEN, so joe
random public can't just stumble across it and file tickets left right
and center but people with a little more knowledge can get to it.
Perhapses even set the default page to a warning page?

Robin