Seems to me that as more of that goes Web-side it needs more
comprehensive standardization, documentation and versioning.
On 2/02/2011 2:36 PM, Arrehn Oberlander wrote:
This is an open question I've tried to ask at a few different linden
office hours, but haven't yet received a response one way or the other.
There's a couple different viewer UI elements now in the pipeline that
are effectively full web pages- the search window, and now the profile
window. It seems like there is more to come.
As a community developer interested in customizing that user interface
for particular audiences, can LL clarify a best practice for working
with these elements?
From a glance it appears that the presentation info and data model are
commingled, complicating client-side customization of the presentation.
It may be possible to scrape out data, but unmanaged minor server-side
adjustments to the presentation page may break scraping activity
suddenly without warning. For an example of this, one can look at the
number of times LSL scripts which display profile pictures by scraping
UUID's from web lookups have been broken over the last few years.
I'm hoping that LL can clarify which interface a community developer
can use to request and retreive this web-based data, particularly for
avatar profile page information, that will not be prone to casual
breakage after a third party viewer has been released.
Thanks, and my apologies if the answer for this is someplace obvious
I've overlooked.
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