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The Archives
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07.16.08“Clickable” Web Pages from within Second LifeBy way of the Metaverse Journal, a new product available on SLExchange allows residents of Second Life to browse Web sites in world using chat commands to navigate. HTML on a prim is one of those features of Second Life that is frequently promised but that has arrived in fits and starts. Virtual worlds and environments like Qwak and Project Wonderland are partly premised on the ability to access external content. In the case of Qwak at least, this content can range from Word documents to Web sites, and navigating this content is as simple as point and click. For Second Life, ...
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06.15.08HTML On a Prim Now DynamicThanks to Epredator by way of Hamlet at New World Notes for pointing out that HTML on a prim now has the capacity to display dynamic Web pages. OK, sure, you can't click them yet and it's still not HTML textures (as compared to using a media stream on a parcel) but we're getting close. As Epredator notes on Eightbar (and Hamlet quotes): "The ability to get to web information in a shared fashion always seemed to be a killer app," Mr. Potato writes. "There is so much content out there and people don’t always want to rebuild everything. So in ...
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