New LSL Feature: Text ON primitive's and Faces

I propose a new LSL scripting feature to allow a user to be able to use a embedded notecard to have simple plain text or other colors and fonts and such taken from the notecard and displayed on 1 or all faces of a prim.

A notecard could be embedded in the prim that the user wants to display the text on. The color and font usage could be variables used in the script. In this way a person could display the text like a sign instead of having to import a texture and fight a graphics program to make it look correct on the prim faces.

Even have scrolling of Text and other features that would be associated with text.

Vote and discuss.

Thanks.

The html on a prim thing will take care of that, won't it? What you really want is a way to transfer what is on a notcard into html within the game.

Hmm that would work nicely yes. But maybe something easier like what is used in forum code to bold, italic and such and change colors of text.

Because everyone know not everyone knows or even wants to know html.

I suspect you won't get it since html support will do everything you want and more. BTW, isn't this formatting stuff based on html anyway?

Yes, but it uses a different parsing system that constrains the numbef of opperations limiting it to images, URLs, and text formatting. In the end, it does become identical to HTML, but HTML tags themselves won't work.
Ex:
<a href="www.google.com">click here to go to Google</a>

^ Valid HTML tag.

Why limit it to notecards? Let us set the text from scripts too. That would be considerably more useful than notecards.

Also, I don't see any advantage to using forum-style formatting over HTML. If you don't want to use other tag types, fine with me. But why would you care whether you use angle brackets or square brackets for tags? (OK, there are a few other minor differences. Why should they implement more than one?

I think its an excellent idea if woe can change size and fonts