[sldev] Linden Lab Navigations and Landmark Project

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 13:08 -0700, William F. Zachmann wrote:
> I think this is an important issue not simply in terms of the specific
> point here, but more broadly in that there does not seem to me to be
> sufficient awareness and concern among developers working on the
> software of the perspective of ordinary residents in Second Life (and
> many more who do not ever become active residents because they find it
> too difficult to learn their way around).  My concern is that
> technically proficient programmers do not typically find it very easy
> to put themselves in the shoes of a non-technical user (SL resident)
> or to appreciate how difficult it is for ordinary people to learn
> their way around SL.

And non-technical users have trouble understanding what engineers are
talking about on (what I thought was) a technical list. I really have
better things to do than hand-hold everyone through every offhand idea I
toss out to the world.

No, I'm not proposing users hand-write profile pages in vi on their own
server. I'm talking about moving the *backend implementation* to
standard, proven, flexible, adaptable and interoperable web technology.
This would all still happen within the SL viewer on top of Linden Lab's
infrastructure.

Assuming LL is at all interested in this idea.
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