Displaying web pages in Second Life

Have been experimenting for about an hour - Linden Labs released a new version (1.19.1 release candidate) this week where you can edit a shape to display web pages (you can already display movies on them).This is my first attempt (have no 3D modelling experience but managed to get this far). I used the brilliant Torley Linden video tutorial to do it. You need to own land or a bit of land or persuade someone to give you building rights to edit their land, in order to do this.

You cannot scroll pages or click on any links as yet, its just for display purposes. If you can write in Lindenscript, you could turn a shape displaying a web page, into a chatbot so it could add interaction that way. You could make the links clickable too. There is a Firefox browser in SecondLife, but I do not have the ability yet to use it.

Re twitter one, have twitter linked into SecondLife so can see live tweets, but was interesting to see the page instead of just semi-transparent lines of tweets appearing across the screen.

have probably spent around 15 hours in SL to date - interesting that can user-generate 3D content with no coding required, although some limitations.One disadvantage is that you can’t copy and paste what you have created out of secondlife - its proprietary code - but with Sun/NMC open virtual worlds initiative underway, hopefully this will change.

Does html on a prim have any business / learning use ? With movies on a shape, SGI have done this to display live meetings and conferences so that users in SL can view them. Not sure yet about html on a prim but think it has lots of potential - anyone else have any ideas ?

PS as a postscript to this, have been property hunting this week for a place to rent - in real life; and in order to explore web page display in Second Life, have also been land / property hunting in Second Life so it has been completely crazy where I have been on the phone in real life, checking land, land auctions in Second Life, viewing estate agent signs in both, checking payments / fees details in both - sometimes within a matter of minutes - it was so similar switching between worlds………:-))))

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