HTML on a Prim Use Cases

This page is for listing actual use cases for HTML on a Prim. Write up a section for what you would use HTML on a Prim for. Please only add a section for what an actual use you have, not something you could imagine using. A good metric is if you have a project that would be substantially improved, or that you could actually do now if you had the feature. Please don't add seconds for uses that you might imagine someone building. We want to know what you would do. If you have several different things, add several sections.

Note: There have been many interesting use cases discussed in Zero's office hours. If talked about one there, please extract your use case and summarize it here.

See also: HTML on a Prim Taxonomy

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Tree Kyomoon

I received this in world on a notecard from Tree. Hope he doesn't mind me posting it here. -- Zero

1. get content hosted externally into SL , just images so we dont have to pay L$10 for each mistake

2. get text into SL via http, not linked text just plain text

3. an interactive browser on a 3d surface is nerdy and cool, but unnecessary, as is flash for a while

4. fix HTTPRequest so it is more transparent and compliant with web systems, I have 200,000 users I could bring into SL via our learning management system if I could properly authenticate them and grab the course XML. I can render it with objects, I just need to get the data in and out :)

Use Cases

1. Presently, to make a presentation within SL I have to create the 'slides' or 'flipcharts' as a matrix on a single image which I can then put on a prim (usually 4x4) and upload. The cost is negligible, clearly, but the ease of use is lacking. I can't easily take different paths through the slides, nor jump to a different presentation easily if required. Direct use of HTML would greatly ease this. I did try using Flash but found through testing that it was not possible to co-ordinate which state was displayed to each user so that they all say the same 'side' together.

2. To bring in live news updates from outside in an easier manner than a headline and an off-SL browser link. Being able to display the latest SL Blog entry on a prim in the Infohub I operate would also be nicer than sending someone off to an external browser as it would keep the resident within SL rather than probably hiding the SL window (where they might miss someone talking to them, etc)

Additionally, many items are scripted to do texture changes - which causes an element of sim lag - whereas moving that script+image off-SL to an externally hosted image (animated gif, whatever) will help all residents. --Alison Wheels 06:36, 21 March 2007 (PDT)