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Alternate Idea for Web Tab

Persephone Milk
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Join date: 7 Oct 2004
Posts: 870
11-15-2006 10:48
If it becomes difficult or dangerous, for technical or security reasons, to impliment the embedded Mozilla brower in the web tab, I would like to offer an alternative idea that gives us a lot of the same stuff without exposing the SL client to hacks.

Keep the Web profile tab, but don't embed a web browser. Instead, let us specifiy an image URL and a web address. When this tab is viewed by a resident, the image will be downloaded dynamically via HTTP and displayed on the tab filling it almost entirely (without the aspect ratio distortions applied to in-world images). The image becomes a clickable link that will launch an external web browswer.

I know this doesn't satisy those who want a fully-functional web browser in the profile, but it does give us the ablity to have dynamic externally controllable content (the image) along with a link to our web site ... and it doesn't expose the SL client to hacks (buffer overruns must still be detected and dealt with appropriately).

I dunno, it's an idea.

At the very least, we could have clickable links in the text of our profiles.
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Haravikk Mistral
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Join date: 8 Oct 2005
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11-15-2006 11:04
Personally I'd be happy with the web-tab with all links and dangerous features (such as certain javascript functions) disabled.

The ability to add an HTML page to my profile which updates when I update the site would be handy enough for me. I could create a special page that uses no javascript or whatever but have PHP generate it from the actual page on my site (when viewed outside of SL). A nice sort of news/latest stuff page and no potential for abuse.
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