[impdev] Fwd: [opensource-dev] Old Showcase feed will soon be turned off

[Justin Clark-Casey]

OpenSim itself doesn't supply a showcase feed - that would be left up to any third party add-ons.

I rather doubt it's implemented by any third-party but I couldn't tell you that for sure.

On 12/04/12 00:44, onefang wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:20:55 +0200 "Borun (a.k.a. Boroondas Gupte)"
> <borun at kokuaviewer.org>  wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: 	[opensource-dev] Old Showcase feed will soon be
>>> turned off Date: 	Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:16:24 -0400
>>> From: 	Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)<oz at lindenlab.com>
>>> Organization: 	Linden Lab
>>> To: 	opensource-dev<opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Several months ago, we made available the Viewer Web Widgets
>>> <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Viewer_Web_Widgets>
>>> to be used to provide various ways of finding interesting places and
>>> events in Second Life, and they are now in use in many TPVs as well
>>> as our viewers.
>>>
>>> The Showcase feed those widgets replaced is going to be shut down
>>> soon, so if your viewer is still using it, now would be a good time
>>> to get the replacement integrated.
>>
>> Are Imprudence and Kokua affected by this? I guess we always use the
>> respective grid's own splash page, so as LL has probably switched
>> theirs over to the new system, we should be fine. Or is there any
>> other place where we might be using the old Showcase feed?
>
> I think that's the Showcase tab on the search window they are talking
> about.  Kokua likely already has that switched over to the new widgets,
> as I would guess recent LL code base has them.
>
> I actually don't know if OpenSim supplies a suitable "Showcase feed".
>
> At any rate, we could just get rid of the Showcase tab.  I don't see a
> "Showcase" widget listed, so I can't say if there's a direct
> replacement.  Doubting if any of those widgets will work on OpenSim.
> SL can (and do) show on their splash page some of these widgets.  Do we
> really need them in the viewer?
>
>
> Otherwise, it's just a web page with some javascript in to throw up
> what ever widgets we desire.  Design a suitable web page, have a menu
> item that opens it up, that's simple enough.  Or, assuming it's already
> in Kokua from LL's code base, just copy that into Imprudence.
>
> Don't think I have even looked at the Showcase tab as a user in years.
>
>
>
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