[sldev] Browser in Secondlife Viewer

[Tateru Nino]

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
I can think of a bonus irritation (which you can reproduce in the web
profiles). If you use the embed tag to embed a media file, it locks out
use of the keyboard for the UI until you close the window.

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Tateru Nino
http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/