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Second Life to Integrate Firefox Browsing
Getting closerrrr to 3D immersive web-browsinnnng.......:)
From Tony Walsh's Clickable Culture
"The virtual world of Second Life will leverage an embedded version of Mozilla Firefox in a future release, supporting in-world web browsing and the display of web pages on the surfaces of 3D objects, according to developers Linden Lab.
Work is now underway on the Firefox-powered features. Development will proceed along the following "road map":static external webpage in 2D browser, no interaction.static external webpage on prim surface, no interactionupdate URL for primitive, all viewers get updateLSL call to set URL for primitivewebpage from script/notecard/typed-in HTMLinteractive web page in 2DThe integrated browser will not support Flash initially, and there will be limits to the number of simultaneously-viewable pages. The browsing function will be able to be turned off client-side, since it requires more resources.
The addition of web browsing in Second Life is a long-awaited feature that brings SL up to speed with the Croquet project, its closest competitor in the VR space. Integrating web pages into Second Life will radically-expand the creative options currently available to users, who can already build their own VR content."
From Tony Walsh's Clickable Culture
"The virtual world of Second Life will leverage an embedded version of Mozilla Firefox in a future release, supporting in-world web browsing and the display of web pages on the surfaces of 3D objects, according to developers Linden Lab.
Work is now underway on the Firefox-powered features. Development will proceed along the following "road map":static external webpage in 2D browser, no interaction.static external webpage on prim surface, no interactionupdate URL for primitive, all viewers get updateLSL call to set URL for primitivewebpage from script/notecard/typed-in HTMLinteractive web page in 2DThe integrated browser will not support Flash initially, and there will be limits to the number of simultaneously-viewable pages. The browsing function will be able to be turned off client-side, since it requires more resources.
The addition of web browsing in Second Life is a long-awaited feature that brings SL up to speed with the Croquet project, its closest competitor in the VR space. Integrating web pages into Second Life will radically-expand the creative options currently available to users, who can already build their own VR content."