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

[Tho Millgrove]

FYI, Crystal has implemented a showcase feedin 3rd Rock Grid . I cannot speak for other OpenSim grids, of course.

 
~*~ Tho (Tara)

Thoria A. Millgrove
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> From: Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>
>To: impdev at lists.imprudenceviewer.org 
>Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 3:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [impdev] Fwd: [opensource-dev] Old Showcase feed will soon be turned off
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>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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