[sldev] Map times

Maggie Leber (sl: Maggie Darwin) maggie at matrisync.com
Wed Apr 1 17:15:20 PDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Philip Rosedale <philip at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> Only after we deploy an official SL viewer that uses the
> S3 tiles, can we consider not creating the in-world map images.    To my
> knowledge, this info is totally consistent with what we said at release of
> the new webmap.

OK, that makes more sense.

So what I'm hearing is: it hasn't broken content yet, but at some
future time it will.

My original points were:

 It sounded like the whole map tile issue was a surprise, and there's
apparently  no official remedy.

 The more that scripting interfaces and behaviors can be formalized,
the fewer nasty surprises there will be, and the longer we'll retain
resident content creators who can update their products
to track architectural changes, as opposed to content creators who
quit in frustration leaving behind orphaned content that will *never*
be fixed when interfaces and behaviors change.

 The stronger the available scripting languages are, the fewer stupid
scripting hacks will find their way into content. Like all the
tomfoolery around list manipulation.


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