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

[Kyle Hamilton]

This begins to sound a lot like 'verse'.

-Kyle H

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Toni Alatalo <antont at kyperjokki.fi> wrote:
> 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
>
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