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Other features we plan to enable for all widgets:
Other features we plan to enable for all widgets:
* Ability to set custom click function: currently the default click behavior triggers a modal notification dialog in addition to initiating a secondlife:// teleport action. We plan to enable a widget setting that can override this with a custom javascript function.
* Ability to set custom click function: currently the default click behavior triggers a modal notification dialog in addition to initiating a secondlife:// teleport action. We plan to enable a widget setting that can override this with a custom javascript function.
For other features or requests, please file a jira and/or discuss in the talk page here.

Revision as of 10:29, 30 September 2011

KBcaution.png Important: Work-in-progress! Expect these widgets to change over time. Watch this page for updates.
NOTE: This is an official Second Life API provided and documented by Linden Lab. Its use is subject to the API Terms of Use.

These viewer web widgets are a first attempt at making the current Second Life Viewer login screen features available for easy use in third-party viewers. Linden Lab provides a base javascript library which will search the DOM of a given page, populating specifically-named divs with widget content.

Basic implementation

The example below shows the simplest way to implement these widgets. Simply include the sl.widgets.js library, then include a div with both id="[the widget you want]" and class="second-life-widget". 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://lecs-viewer-login-agni.s3.amazonaws.com/pubwidgets/v1/modules/sl.widgets.js">
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="whats-hot-now-widget" class="second-life-widget"></div>
    </body>
</html>

Version 1 of the main sl.widgets.js library currently lives here:

This library will pull in all the supporting content it needs -- other js files, css, and the content for each widget. It uses its own version of jQuery, and will create a separate namespace to avoid conflicts if you already have jQuery installed.

Widgets

What's Hot

This widget displays a thumbnail list of destinations with people (a population of 25 or less, in the last ~10 minutes). The cutoff number may change over time; 25 was chosen as a reasonable performance threshold.

With the main js library loaded, include this div in your html markup: 

  • <div id="whats-hot-now-widget" class="second-life-widget"></div>

This widget expects the above div to be a fixed height of 148px. It will adapt its content to 100% of the div's width, so you can make it as wide as you like. To control positioning, size, and other parameters, just style the #whats-hot-now-widget in your own page's css.


Localization

Widget strings can be localized by adding ?lang=[de|es|fr|ja|pt] to your page's url.


Future roadmap

In the near future we plan to add widgets for each item on the current Second Life Viewer login screen:

  • Editors' Picks slideshow (the big one, top left)
  • Destinations main widget (with category selector)
  • Upcoming events
  • Second Life Blog

Other features we plan to enable for all widgets:

  • Ability to set custom click function: currently the default click behavior triggers a modal notification dialog in addition to initiating a secondlife:// teleport action. We plan to enable a widget setting that can override this with a custom javascript function.

For other features or requests, please file a jira and/or discuss in the talk page here.

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