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.
_______________________________________________ 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
