Johnnie Carling

In M Linden's recent blog post he said...

I have read some posts around the blogs and etc.. suggesting that he is talking about the Vectorform Landmarks and Navigation Project. So I figured I'd grab the source and compile it and see whats up. As it turns out... not a whole lot is up.

But in any case I thought I might as well post a screenshot of something that could be coming to a viewer near you.



In the menu there is now a landmarks menu. that pretty much a standard browser bookmark menu.

In the address bar (from left to right)

Half circle button - Collapses the menu to get it out of your way.
Back button - TP you to your last location
Forward button - TP you to the location you were at when you hit the back button
Downward pointing triangle - Seems to be a history button. drops down a list of where you have been.
Home button - send you to your home location
The "i" in the circle - Opens the about land box
The address bar itself - where you type the SURLS
triangle - address bar history
the person with an arrow icon - basically a go button, sends you to the address in the bar.

Below the bar is the new preferences dealing with the address bar.

All in all I like it, but I don't think this is what M was talking about. it's nice but no great leap in making the viewer better for new people.

Well that's my 2 linden cents.

Eata

That's a good start. Now they only have 99% of the client to make not suck.

Dancien Graves

So it shall be a decorative lump of code poo then?

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Mecha Dinosaur

I can finally retrace what I did the night before when I take my meds, hooray!

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Aodhan McDunnough

That's not the main thing he's talking about that's for sure. His key phrase was "first hour."

The browser-like teleport convenience is not a first hour thing, that's an always thing. It will however benefit first hour in that it resembles an interface they already know and finally newbies will see the SLURL = URL, land = webspace, buildings and land objects = content, attachments = applets metaphors

What he means is to find a way to get new people familiar with the interface and other SL stuff all within the first hour. THIS I'm waiting to see. Having helped so many newbies I like seeing improvements in the first hour area. Not everyone is someone like me (or most people here) that we "get" the interface quickly.

Parker McTeague

good improvement. i don't think this is *the* client though, it's one little feature duct taped to the old beast of a client.

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Roxie Marten

Typical Linden fare. More whiz bang features and not addressing the basic problems.
Gee perhaps we could fix the things that have been wrong with it since 1.2?

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Predreus

Doesn't the OnRez viewer have this functionality already built into it?

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