Jess does post that kind of info usually.Īll SL photogs should use LL's standard ratios for profile pics. You might find the most recent figures somewhere on the FS blog. As for what that figure might be now you'd need to ask Jessi since LL isn't going to provide those figures to anyone else (that isn't on a TPV dev team, not the support team). The figures we used to get came directly from LL. *thwaps you on the nose with two fingers* Behave!
Deakins used to insist that the fact that Internet Explorer shipped with Windows made it the "standard" long after most people stopped using it and it began to throw hissy fits with many websites designed for more common viewers) Edited March 27 by Theresa Tennyson (Theresa Tennyson has memories of how Mr. That viewer currently uses the 16:9 aspect ratio. The reason that Firestorm, et al use 16:9 is they're using the original aspect ratio, which was also used with Viewer 1.23, Phoenix and Singularity after the introduction of Viewer 2.Ģ) Linden Lab is working on a project to switch back to the "legacy" in-viewer profiles instead of continuing to use the web profiles it currently uses.
That's my opinion, anyway.ġ) The aspect ratio originally was 16:9 until the Linden Lab viewer changed it to 4:3 with Viewer 2. 3rd party viewers should handle the ratio ok, but I don't think the standard viewer will handle non-standard ratios, and a lot of people use the standard viewer. The way for the OP to cover as many users as possible with the pic dimensions is to use the standard viewer's dimensions - that's the LL viewer. I'm saying that I don't accept your figure.īut that's beside the point. As for the percentages, I'd still like to see LL's figures. Yes, 3rd party viewers do add things to the LL viewer, and re-arrange things too. FS has increased in popularity over the years. At one point, the figure was close to 70% as I recall. The majority of residents do use FS as their "normal" viewer. They do and the TPVs have many more features the LL viewer doesn't have. So my opinion is, cater for the standard viewer - the LL viewer - because all modified LL viewers should be able to do what the standard viewer does. I could accept that more people use 3rd party viewers than the LL viewer but that's different. Someone 'assumed' that most people use Firestorm, but I can't accept that. Unless I'm mistaken, which is certainly possible, I don't think the other viewers are allowed to totally replace parts of the original viewer so, if Firestorm can't handle the LL viewer's ratio, then I believe it is doing wrong.
No full 3rd party viewer is its own creation. It's the one that all the other full viewers make modifications to. I understand what you mean but, imo, the norm is the LL viewer. Better, imo, to cater for the standard viewer, because all viewers should be able to handle it. So, to go along with one viewer's modification does not mean that you are reaching the majority of users. Mine kept the standard floater, hers added to it. My 3rd party viewer doesn't have that, and only one URL can be added. In her viewer, she had an extra tab called Sounds (I think it was Sounds), in which she could add several URLs for the music stream to the parcel. We were both using 3rd party viewers but not the same as each other. Example: only this morning I was having a discussion with someone concerning the About Land floater. But I do think that 3rd party viewers are not allowed to totally replace parts of the standard viewer, whether they abide by it or not.ĭon't forget that there are a fair number of 3rd party viewers, and they don't all make the same modifications, so it can't be assumed that they all now only do a 16:9 ratio. I also said that it's quite possible that I am mistaken. Should they? (That's another point for debate.) But they don't.