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Krazzora Zaftig
Do you have my marbles?
Join date: 20 Aug 2005
Posts: 649
12-05-2006 13:03
Maybe this should get tacked up top if anyone gets this answered. Basicly is there any idea of standards to conform to the new Web tab when making a webpage for it? Good practices, etc. For a new feature there seems to be little actual "documented" info. For everyone that answers I'll say now. Thank you. ^_^
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Damek Tretiak
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Join date: 18 Jul 2006
Posts: 22
12-05-2006 16:22
Here are a couple of things I found out while working with the tabs.
  1. The size of the window is 400x400, with the most important part being the width. You probably don't want the horizontal scrollbar, so keep your divisions below that range. The web tab isn't resizeable, so it's important to keep this in mind.
  2. Links will work just fine, but forms seem a bit awkward at the moment. I was hoping to make a search form, but wasn't satisfied with the results. Forms on my MAC didn't seem to work at all. The best thing to do now, is devise a way to use links to their maximum benefit. For instance, I use tag links to browse through the various offerings on slquery.com.
  3. Some Javascript will work, but not overly complicated scripts. Ajax works, but only slightly and is a bit awkward and slow at times. I chose to not use a lot of javascript at the moment.
  4. The user-agent for the mini-browser is currently: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061012 [Second Life 1.12.4.1], the most important part being a search for the words "Second Life" in the string. You can use this to determine how the site should react. For instance, browsing to http://www.slquery.com in the web tab brings you to the root of the mini version of the site.
  5. Best advice is probably, keep it simple. :-)


Hope that helps!
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FlipperPA Peregrine
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Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 3,703
12-05-2006 19:36
I've found the usable width to be 385 pixels. Am I missing something? Thanks.

Regards,

-Flip
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Damek Tretiak
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Join date: 18 Jul 2006
Posts: 22
12-05-2006 20:40
Yes, I think you're right, especially when you take into account the vertical scroll bar.
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