Text-based web client for Second Life:

It’s a new, open source[-based] version of the SL viewer, and though it’s severely limited– you can use the SL map, teleport, chat and IM, and check your friend/L$ status, and that’s pretty much it– it has one signature advantage.

This is Second Life from the Web.

Firefox and Safari to be exact, running a version of SL through Ajax. According to Katharine Berry, creator of the aptly-named AjaxLife, it also runs less well on Internet Explorer, Opera, and Wii Opera. Up to now, accessing SL requires a separate client download and a powerful graphics card– two high hurdles for almost everyone on the Internet. A number of SL competitors have been targeting this very weakness, aiming to create a Web-based user-created world without such an awkward, time-consuming barrier to entry. Using protocols from libsecondlife, the open source SL project, Katharine has changed that assumption considerably. “If there’s enough interest,” she concludes with winning modesty, “I’ll make a version that you can run on your own machine to connect to, once it’s further developed (e.g. starting IMs, profile viewing, possibly inventory management, etc.)”

[Wagner James Au: New World Notes]

Via Futurismic.