[Opensim-users] extending / changing protocols (Re: Can Awesomium be used in OpenSim?)

[Toni Alatalo]

On May 25, 2009, at 3:07 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> The problem is not the absence of clever code but rather that the 
> protocol has never offered more than a bare minimum of interactivity; 
> just toy interactivity really. As long as OpenSim tries to accomodate 
> all viewers that will continue to be the case.

I don't think that is true: AFAIK OpenSim supports multiple kinds of 
clients by enabling you to have different code to handle different kind 
of connections. Isn't it so that for example the MXP client view works 
so that that protocol is used for those clients, and SL for the 
slviewer, and both kinds can be connected to the same sim at the same 
time?

So you can add a new protocol to OpenSim and support any features 
there, and others can still use other client apps to connect, just 
won't have those features enabled. For example they could perhaps see a 
web page that updates sometimes, and you would have some advanced means 
to interact with it.

~Toni