Over on the
official Linden Blog, news of the
Second Life Release Candidate 1.19.1(RC0) was released a few minutes ago. This combines
Windlight into the main RC line, and thus soon into the main stream. It also, in a rather more exciting move to many, includes a change to the media streaming system to let you see web pages
IN Second Life. The system is still in an early stage - there are no interactions, no flash and the like as yet (although interacting with web pages and shared browsing will be along sometime in the future), but it works. Look closely at the picture - that's not a mock up, within seconds of being in
Second Life with the new RC, I had
Massively's website on a prim. That simple.
[
UPDATE: there are a couple of twiddles too - the "debug" menus (from Cntl-alt-shift-D) have been compressed into a single "Advanced" menu, same keystrokes though]
Mar 6th 2008 at 7:30PM
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TigroSpottystripes Katsu said on 1:07AM 3-07-2008
0.0
WOAH!!!
shouldn't this feature have been on test ont he beta grid for at least a month before implementing it on the main grid?
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Ryukurai said on 11:37AM 3-07-2008
It isn't implemented on the main grid at all. This, like a lot of features, is all on the client side. These are Release Candidates, which is Lindenspeak for Beta Software on the Live (or, Main) Grid.
The clients called Beta are actually the ones connecting to the Beta Grid(s).
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Eloise Pasteur said on 11:40AM 3-07-2008
I'm not quite sure what you mean Ryukurai. This is available as part of a viewer that connects to the main grid, and since it causes changes to the parcel media streams (which is information stored on the server, not per client) it is also a change to the grid.
It most certainly is on the main grid. Whether it is a significant change to the grid that should have been on the beta grid first, or it's simply changing the field to let it store a wider range of URLs I'm not clear. I'm guessing, essentially, the larter since it was released direct to the main grid so it didn't require any significant change to the server code.
Ari Blackthorne said on 12:30PM 3-07-2008
@ Eloise
"This is available as part of a viewer that connects to the main grid, and since it causes changes to the parcel media streams (which is information stored on the server, not per client) it is also a change to the grid."
Actually, yes and no...
In the servers, the only thing that is actually stored are the URL information. That URL is passed to the viewer and the viewer views it independently of any servers. It has always been this way.
That's why if I come to a parcel and you are already 5-minutes into a movie and I play the movie - I start at the beginning and you will always be five-minutes ahead of me. because it is our individual viewers doing all the work - not Linden servers.
As for html on a prim - same thing. It's your viewer that's actually rendering it. If it were all server-based, the interactivity would likely already be there. So it will require an updated viewer to even see it.
That's why I am not quite sure I am ready to start using that feature yet. Everyone on the current 'official' viewer still can't see it. It's like using the 'glow' feature in texturing prims. Only those with WindLight (and now this RC) can see it. Everyone on the official viewer does not see this effect. Again, because the effect is created on your local viewer. The server only store the 'switch' that tells the viewer whether this is the case or not - and the viewer is theone that does all the work.
:)
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Ryukurai said on 6:06PM 3-07-2008
Yes. It "hits" the server in about the same way as voice does.
Services that are not connected to the SL servers except as URL handlers (which does *not* cause SLag) are:
Voice - Provided by Vivox (http://www.vivox.com)
HTML On a Prim - Provided by the web servers that Firefox or IEwould use (in Live Beta).
Music - Provided by the MP3 Stream service.
Video - Provided by the MOV/QT Stream service.
Group IM - Provided by LL but through external TCP/IP Servers (which is why it often breaks).
There are others, but those are the most visible.