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Johnnie Carling · 09-30-2008, 04:22 PM

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

Quote:

We’ve made great progress and will be working with an award-winning interactive design firm to help us complete the reinvention and bring it to life. Yes, we are creating a viewer that is new user friendly!

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 · 09-30-2008, 06:01 PM

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

Dancien Graves · 09-30-2008, 06:03 PM

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

Mecha Dinosaur · 09-30-2008, 06:52 PM

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

Aodhan McDunnough · 09-30-2008, 08:27 PM

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 · 09-30-2008, 08:28 PM

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.

Roxie Marten · 10-01-2008, 01:59 AM

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?

Predreus · 10-01-2008, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

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

09-30-2008, 06:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
Dancien Graves Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 6,860 SL Join Date: 12/2006 Business: Club Baby Seals My Mood: Awards: 1	So it shall be a decorative lump of code poo then? __________________

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Mecha Dinosaur CS Violator I play Mabinogi, do you? Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,098 SL Join Date: 6/13/2006 Blog Entries: 3 My Mood:	I can finally retrace what I did the night before when I take my meds, hooray! __________________

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Parker McTeague little glowing friend Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,110 SL Join Date: September 28, 2004 Business: Park Life Modern Homes and Interior SLShopper Ads: 8 My Mood:	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. __________________ also you can read my blog!

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Roxie Marten Defying Gravity SLU Griefer Clan Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hell MIchigan Posts: 1,559 SL Join Date: 2-18-04 My Mood:	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? __________________ "I don't have low self-esteem. I have low esteem for everyone else"

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09-30-2008, 06:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
Eata Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 654 Cone Crazy 2 Champion! SLShopper Ads: 1 My Mood:	That's a good start. Now they only have 99% of the client to make not suck.

09-30-2008, 08:27 PM	#5 (permalink)
Aodhan McDunnough exp(ln(Gearhead)) Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Philippines Posts: 5,333 Beer Tapper Gone Wild Champion! Apprentice : Dairy Queen Champion! SL Join Date: March 28, 2006 Business: Aodhan's Forge Blog Entries: 2 SLShopper Ads: 2 My Mood:	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.