[Opensim-users] Any plans on supporting the display of web pages?

[Jeroen van Veen]

"I don't want to go the route of realxtend due to it not running on a*nix 
server"

It does run fine on linux servers. :-)

On Friday 11 September 2009 17:43:05 Robert Klein wrote:
> Hey Charles,
> What about being able to display an actual web page in realtime like the
> realxtend viewer does? I have several of the static "web page on a prim"
> boards using picidai.net running on my company's internal opensim, but
>  after playing with the functionality of realxtend.. well what we have in
>  opensim does not compare. In this day and age having the ability to at
>  least view a functioning web page in real time and see it updating is
>  crucial to business/educational users. Being able to interact with that
>  web page would be incredible. VNC would be cool too.
> 
> I know there are plenty of work arounds for emulating this functionality,
>  it would be great to just have it built-in. I don't want to go the route
>  of realxtend due to it not running on a*nix server, plus different users
>  with different graphics cards get much different experiences.
> 
> Is anyone even working on this kind of functionality in opensim/hippo?
> 
> -Robert
> 
> Charles Krinke wrote:
> > Well, web pages on a prim are not necessarily a characteristic of the
> > client.
> >
> > What we have been doing for the last couple of years is displaying web
> > pages on prims in OpenSim and using an external helping web site for
> > picture formatting such as picidai.net.
> >
> > There are a series of prims spread around OSGrid and the OSGrid forums
> > have the script source. One of the prims doing web pages on a prim is on
> > Wright Plaza and has been working reliably for over a year.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com>
> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 7:30:42 AM
> > Subject: [Opensim-users] Any plans on supporting the display of web
> > pages?
> >
> >
> > I know the realxtend viewer can display web pages on a prim, but what
> > about
> > support for this in Hippo? Any chance of this happening in the next 3 - 6
> > months?
>