Latest FL version.. update not required to login?

Why is it, that when a NEW VERSION of FirstLook is released… people are still permitted to login using an out of date FL client?

If you’re going to allow people with less than 2 weeks in SL have their experience tainted by using BETA software, and force these noobs on the retail public (with their complaints that X doesn’t work).. could you at least make sure that the beta software they’re all using is the most up to date version OF that beta software?

Push a button or something, that makes all the old FL clients go "there is a new version of Firstlook available"

Because the data the client is using hasn't changed, i.e. no grid and regular client update.

While the First Look client changes a lot on the client side (i.e. graphics rendering, user interface) it still uses the same communication with the grid as the regular viewer does. So there's no need to upgrade to a newer First Look, until the grid updates communication and invalidates the old viewers.

Personally, I am very glad that older First Look viewers can be used. Each version has its own bugs and quirks, so if the latest First Look breaks for me, I simply step back one release and use that, until the next update fixes the problem.

well obviously you don't have to deal with irate customers who are using the buggy Dialog version... New people shouldn't be able to download it at all. It should be restricted to people with some SL experience under their belt.

I think the main issue there is that its being treated as something of an internal release, so not enough coders felt compelled to spawn two dialogs after reworking the code involved.

The new users not allowed thing makes some sense, or maybe just tons of clickwrap suggesting the main client if you don't know what you're doing. In either case it'd prolly run against the big PR push to use firstlook.

I keep every First Look I download, simply so that if I find an obscure bug, I can determine which was the first version the bug showed up in. If older releases stop working, it seriously impairs the ability to zero-in on a bug that may be a few releases old, but not encountered until recently.

Also, showstopper bugs can be avoided by using the previous release. For beta-testing software with a lot of potential issues, not disabling older releases is definitely the way to go.

-Z