[sldev] Client detection and official viewer signatures.

[SnowFox102]

He didn't say it breaks content, he said it breaks compatibility - that 
is, Emerald has a lot of (desirable) features that the LL viewer 
doesn't. But your average Ruth doesn't know that, so they may buy a 
product and want to mod it to do something their friend on Emerald has 
it doing, only to find that they can't do it because they're not using 
Emerald. I think he means that standardizing viewer tags would be 
helpful for us merchants, because then we can track down such 
incompatibility issues much easier. The average user may not know what 
viewer they're using, or know how to tell the merchant. Being able to 
detect it on our own would save a lot of time and energy.

Also, with the exception of RLV content, I don't know of anyone that 
makes content that requires a specific viewer, but with LL viewers' 
approval rating constantly falling and third party viewers adding 
features asked of the Lindens months ago, it wouldn't surprise me to 
start seeing a few products bearing "Requires X Viewer to function", 
since more and more people are using those viewers anyway. If/when that 
day comes, viewer tags would help there too.

Maya

Tigro Spottystripes wrote:
> Stickman, have you talked with the Emerald people about the content
> breaking features you mentioned?
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