Viewer or Browser?

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

Ok so, it's more than a viewer, it's more than a browser, I guess that since we use it to interact with a virtual world, it's an innerface?

[Evah Baxton]

1 hour ago, Profaitchikenz Haiku said:

Ok so, it's more than a viewer, it's more than a browser, I guess that since we use it to interact with a virtual world, it's an innerface?

Yes! What happens when we use the viewer to browse a store? Is it then a browser?

[Silent Mistwalker]

On 3/17/2021 at 1:21 PM, Patch Linden said:

Does this make it clear?  😁

 

Yerp. That's about as clear as mud.

 

[animats]

The Second Life viewer does contain a web browser. It's Google Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome. It works mostly like Chrome, except that it doesn't have the non-open-source part needed to play video with strong digital rights management. This is why you can't watch Netflix on a TV in Second Life.

[Gabriele Graves]

2 hours ago, animats said:

The Second Life viewer does contain a web browser. It's Google Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome. It works mostly like Chrome, except that it doesn't have the non-open-source part needed to play video with strong digital rights management. This is why you can't watch Netflix on a TV in Second Life.

If I have a bag that contains a necklace, that doesn't make the bag a necklace because it contains it.

[Phil Deakins]

6 hours ago, Evah Baxton said:

What happens when we use the viewer to browse a store? Is it then a browser?

No it isn't. In the case you described, YOU are the browser, not the programme you use. The viewer is the moveable window through which you browse the goods in the store. You take the window to places and things you want to see. A browser is a static space in which things are displayed. Because it doesn't move, it can thought of as a board.

Things like web pages come to the static browser, but the mobile viewer goes to the things. They are quite different.

Edited March 24, 2021 by Phil Deakins