This may just be the first proper web browser in Second Life. Through simple chat commands it let you view almost any web site on the web, surfing from web page to web page following links just like a real web browser.
Whilst Daden Navigator is a great step forward it is still not a 100% capable web browser.
Its limitations come from two areas:- Second Life Web Page on a Prim: We use this feature of SL in order to display each web page. This means we cannot control how each individual web page will be rendered. For instance at the moment (July 08, V1.19) SL does not render Flash, YouTube or play media and cannot scroll up and down on a page, or fill out forms - so we can't do these with Daden Navigator.- To follow links we use our proxy to retrieve the web page you are looking at and parse the HTML to identity the links on the page. However if the links are embedded in Flash, or use complex Javascript, or are images without ALT tags then we cannot find them.
In fact Daden Navigator behaves very similarly to the talking browsers and screenreaders used by visually impaired users - so sites with good accessibility (eg WAI AAA) should work well, whereas those with poor accessibility will not (just note how many sites have lots of links called "more" or "click here" - they are a real pain for screenreader users - and now for you). We've always said that accessibility was important!
The simplest work-around to both of these is to use the "popout" command to put the displayed page into your SL client or desktop web browser.
Watch the movie and decide for yourself, seems like an improvement on the current inworld option. We can but dream of the day people can read sl-newspaper.com inworld!
Dana
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