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

Wed Sep 16 11:09:19 UTC 2009

Sloodle project also has something similar. Initially that is developed for
Second Life (and I have not tested it in OpenSim), but cannot see why it
would not also work there.

The link to that project is here:

http://www.sloodle.org/browser/get.php

Regards,

Olli

From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
[mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Fish Kungfu
Sent: 16 September 2009 12:05
To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Any plans on supporting the display of web

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.net
and 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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