[Opensim-dev] Lively

[Teravus Ovares]

Eh,

I think it's the one thing that they have going for them to attract an
audience.   Alas, dropping the browser is like dropping IPv4 to use IPv6
only.

Best Regards

Ter


On 7/10/08, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:
>
> -1 on browser based viewers, too
>
> I am seriously beginning to hate the way this browser-centric way of
> thinking makes end user believe their computer is there only to run the
> browser, and "The Internet" is in that one window.
>
> "Let me open the internet and look", "I crashed the internet"... just a
> couple of things that show that people fully equate the WWW with the
> internet as a whole.
>
> As more and more non-WWW (non HTML, non HTTP) things are bundled into
> the browser, the browser becomes terrible bloatware that pretty much
> eats up all the computer's resources.
>
> I think the time for a backlash is long overdue, people need to be given
> an _alternative_ to the browser, not yet another browser plugin!
>
> Melanie
>
>
> Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > -1 on browser-based viewers.
> >
> > VWs is an application network, like web, email and IM (and OpenSim
> > is/will be the Apache/Sendmail/etc that powers the network). Although a
> > web browser *can* act as a GUI for each one of the above, in reality
> > most people eventually prefer a dedicated application because its
> > possible to better capture the essence of the network for users. (How
> > many people pipe gmail into their "fat" email client because the web
> > client just doesn't "cut it"?)
>
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