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

Wed Sep 16 11:05:00 UTC 2009

Daniel...

Glad to hear you are working on this.  I searched the OpenSim email archives
and only found one reference to Open Croquet (opencroquet.org).  Open
Croquet is another 3D world development environment.  The only reason I
mention it is because it says on their site they they support in-world
web-browsing and I thought you might get some ideas or inspiration by seeing
what they've done (without violating their licensing etc).  The in-world web
browsing is accomplished via a module called "Croquet Collaborative" (
http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Croquet_Collaborative).  Sadly the zip
file link didn't work for me.

Anyways, I hope this helps some, without sending you on a wild goose chase.
:-)

~~Fish~~

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Daniel <dt11 at gmx.net> wrote:

> At the moment, I'm trying to "expand" the web functionality of OpenSim by
> integrating a webbrowser control. With the help of that control the user
> would be able to interact on a webpage displayed on a texture by sending the
> coordinates of his mouse to that control. Furthermore, an instance of the
> Internet Explorer running in the background could be used with these coords
> to manage different user interactions like link forwarding or editing form
> fields. As a result the updated webpage is rendered with the
> IElementRenderer to a temporary image file that is send back to the texture
> in OpenSim.
>
> I know that this solution is limited in various ways (and is not compatible
> with *nix servers) but it is one possibility to go apart from picidae.netand get independent. For me, it is a first step to achieve a separate
> webbrowser control in OpenSim.
>
>
> -DAniel
>
>
> 2009/9/14 Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com>
>
> > >
> > > Really? You mean under mono like OpenSim does? Never thought about that
> and
> > > I
> > > did not see any docs about it. Unfortunately that still leaves me with
> the
> > > over the top rendering requirements to really do RealXtend justice.
> > >
> > > -Robert
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeroen van Veen wrote:
> >
> >> > >
> >> > > "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?
> >>>>
> >>> > >>
> >>>
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> >>
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