Firefox in Neualtenburg

In a future release of SL, LL plans to embed Firefox into the client to allow the rendering of HTML onto the surfaces of prims in world. How do you think the city should use this new feature?

My thoughts were:

1. A dynamic bulletin board providing a list of events.
   
2. A billboard with the city web page.
   
3. Complete in-world voting system combining the existing in-world voting machine and the online voting page.
   
4. Vendors that display items from a web page and allow a purchase.
   

What ideas do you have?

~Ulrika~

I've not been keeping up as I should with proposed feature releases.

Will this Firefox feature include interactivity with the image displayed on the prim? Allowing the full functionality of the web interface?

Or will it be simply an image of a web page on the prim, much like the media "playback" now provided for Quicktime playback, where Flash content played back retains no interactivity at all?

If it's the former; well, I suspect that will revolutionize SL. (Sorry for being dramatic.) For one thing, the ToS clause prohibiting RL commercial transactions in SL would become irrelevant. I'm sure Lands End would be happy to pay rent to a resident for putting up a screen which displayed their website. From which you could not only examine the goods, but buy them as well. Really a far more sophisticated "vendor" than the ones in use in SL now.

On the "benefit to people-kind" side of things, many of the work-arounds that e-learning projects in SL resort to will no longer be necessary. That display screen for the group, or the personal learning interface for the individual, contains the full functionality of the site which the user would previously be accessing in solitary, on their own computer. SL adds in the interconnection with other people, and you have everything!

And on the "mind-game" side of things, consider the "Alice in Wonderland" possibility. Using the browser on the prim, you could log onto SL. Then, in that second "instance" of SL, wander into the room displaying that "second instance" on the screen. Is that what the mathematicians would call a recursive event?

Sudane

I believe the first release will be "playback" style, and the goal is to eventually have a truely interactive browser inside of SL. My beliefs stem from a post that Pathfinder made in the forums, that I'll try to track down, and personal conversations with Pathfinder and company at the last town hall.

Well, as I hear ti, initially the browers will be, like a notecard, a seperate "window" within SL; interactive "prim-browsers" come later.

At this time, we have llLoadURL, which gives you the separate browser in a window. It seemed like a great idea when it was proposed. But in use, if you do anything in SL while using that browser window, it disappears behind SL.

And, like a notecard, the experience of the browser is personal; only you can see it. This new proposal seems much more organic to SL.

Sudane