There is truth to the breaking compatibility breaks content argument, but as you yourself said, it should be up to the user how they want to view the world and its content. LL has done far worse in breaking content lately, whereas the third parties have worked to fix it and add to it. It's not hard to see why I side with the third party developers on this one. ;)
That said, it's also true that the third party viewers don't necessarily do it right, like the IM spam from Emerald. But the few users who know about it seem to feel that it's better to have that, AND be able to see the world/their builds/their avatars the way the creators intended, as opposed to using an LL viewer that does neither. As for Snowglobe, I've said it before and I'll keep saying it as long as the status quo is maintained: It doesn't do anything the end-user can see as different, currently. No new features, no new bug fixes. Under the hood work is needed of course, but it can't be pushed as a good alternative viewer until it does something special that end users can actually see that makes it different from the default viewer. Besides having a different name and icon. That's why third party viewers are so popular, they DO stuff. Maya Nexii Malthus wrote: > Emerald has moved over to Client-to-Client communication via Instant > Messages. For client detection every single agent that comes into > presence gets spammed by Emerald 4 times to test for the presence of > the c2c communication API. (Not sure why it spams 4 times, even though > I never ever had a IM packet lost so far) > > Snowglobe won't be getting exotic features like this any soon, since > they are all basically hacks designed to circumvent the slow progress > by the propietary simulator code development. > > > Back on topic, breaking compatibility IS breaking content, the same > way if you render a HTML tag somewhat differently you might be > breaking millions of websites. Websites can adapt though because they > can see use the user agent, we just don't have that luxury in SL yet. > > - Nexii > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
