On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:17:27 -0500 Erin Mallory <angel_of_crim...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > This is slightly off topic but as the ramifications of what will > happen when the old profiles are taken down is starting to get out > there, merchants and content creators are starting to panic about > what these new profiles mean for them. There is a a ton of content > that is going to be broken by this, much of it content that > businesses rely on heavily. a more full list can be found in web-3509 > but a number of rewards systems, venders, and security devices found > within hundreds if not thousands of SL stores are built heavily > around the old profile pages and cannot be easily updated or replaced > before the old profiles will likely be taken down... Even if > businesses begin to switch over, that involves changing out sometimes > hundreds of venders, everything associated with the venders (like > gift cards etc), and during all of that the ability to make new > content is affected. Many SL businesses are teetering on the edge of > bankrupcy already, including many where this is the SOLE or largest > percentage of income to those that simply are incapable of getting an > income any other way. So I'm pleading with the lindens and devs on > this list to PLEASE start putting some thought to how to mitigate > this... i'm sorry but don't understand how web interface to show profile data can involve business..... scripts still work in both directions (groups, key2name, the new istr about display names), and web interface is just a re-design of the "old" profile in sidebar (upper piece SL-photo +SL desc, just under RL photo +info, on a sie groups and picks), is just a interface design... you can stil ask for friendship, open an IM, offer a teleport, invite to a group (and bot can still invite to groups), so how shops, security systems and other can be involded by web profiles? _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
