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  • senfo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not sure how practical this is, but I digg it!
  • dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0eh. big deal. yawn
  • aquataine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is extraordinarily cool - love seeing Digg on a flag ! Gets a DIGG from me...
  • toe_head2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw this on Doug Turner's blog earlyer. cool
  • mxpxpx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0cool, but absolutly no point to it
  • PostalRIT, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0cool... but, why?
  • zimm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0intresting.. but totally useless...

    -D
  • brianritchie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yup, I really don't get the point
  • tomi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0oO. I agree with those who are saying this is pointless...
  • bobb243, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0i don't see why anyone would use this, except if they're on shrooms or something
  • BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1LOL USELESS HAI2U!!!
  • johcha, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Yawn... I agree.. No digg.
  • CrazyShrum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"What does it looks like?"

    HAHA! Seriously though...what is this?
  • frickindeal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2May not be useful, but it's definitely cool. The scaling is really cool, I would like a Firefox extension that could scale pages like that.

    dugg.
  • allenu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yeah, about as useful as reading a newspaper at an angle!
  • gu3st, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1its so nifty, its useless but awesome, digg-***** from me for sure :)
  • mfhines, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0im surprised someone went to the trouble of coding this...
  • bradthompson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This gives me wood. I've always wanted to be able to browse on a cube. Think of all that porn!. If you read the FAQ ***** you'll see what it's all about. Double damn digg down here.
  • kokobaroko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0no use, 2 minute toy
    no digg
  • solaristics, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It looks like it has a ways to go. You might check out
  • digitalsin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4its a proof of concept people, RTFP.

    nicely done and hope to see someone do something cool with it
  • solaristics, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Oops:
    SphereXP: http://www2.technobabble.com.au/article263.html
  • BryanTheCrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cool proof of concept... Digg++
  • trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"cool... but, why?"
    RTFA

    "I work for an astonishingly cool company in the San Francisco Bay area called Linden Lab. Our software, Second Life, is becoming quite popular - mostly because of the amazing content that our residents create in-world. This is, in part at least, related to new features that we add and my work at the moment is focused on embedding the Mozilla® Gecko rendering engine into our client. This will enable lots of very new and exciting content. For instance, it will allow users to access Second Life specific Web pages such as the Lindex Currency exchange directly from within the client - something that had to be hard-coded using our own GUI before. Content and functionality can be shared between our software and the Web. The ability to use pages containing XUL & SVG as well as plain old HTML/CSS/DHTML will allow all sorts of interesting, "in-world applications". Things will really take off when I complete the piece that allows residents to put interactive pages on objects they create in world. As always, we'll be amazed and impressed with what they'll come up with."

    "It's not meant to be push the advantages and disadvantages of browsing in 3D although this framework might be useful as a starting point for others who'd like to explore those possibilities."
  • aka1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For those of you not getting the point:
    Putting a Firefox web browser on flag is a great example of arbitrary embedding. Some penny-stock company (Micro something or other?) seems to think this is a big deal, and it is. This is yet another step towards Firefox being on equal footing with IE.
  • solaristics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, cool idea. I'd be interested in seeing the functional side of it fleshed out. It would be good to see 3D layout features for multiple browser instances. Also, if the title bar were shown at the top of the inner browser, one could use that as a 3D manipulator in combination with the keyboard. Digg++
  • hitm4n, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0useless
    no digg
  • Achilles1942, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0why?
  • stevex0r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Why the hell would I want to distort the ***** out of a website which is ment to be 2d? This is pointless and just proves the point that just because you can use technology for cool eye candy effects it can in fact make things less user friendly and acctually hurt the user experience. Screw this I will stick to my regular 2d browser because it acctually gives me a better user experience, Am I the only one who now wants to play some KOF on the neo-geo?
  • vagrantradio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Annoying. Wow, the spell checker works. huh.
  • marreka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Useless on its own, but good to see this feature is going to be introduced into Second Life.
    Way to go Linden Labs.
  • crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+03D only goes with 3D, we'll have to wait for a 3D website for something like this to work. I wonder what would a 3D website look like?
  • cyberghost232, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0junk, junk, and more junk. its bad enough windows has the problems that it does
  • bradthompson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've been experimenting with this a bit more. It's not just Web pages - you can also do XUL apps - I wonder if SongBird that was released today works. Imagine a free media player that you can embed in video games. Holy ***** yeah! Think of the video game applications for this stuff. I wish there was a Linux version though - I hate having to fire up my Winsucks box just to see it.
  • balexander, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is really cool. i don't care if it's useless.
  • staticten, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I know it's cool.......but it needs to be said:

    WHO THE HELL WOULD WANT TO BROWSE LIKE THAT???
  • cyanidenfs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wouldve taken a long time to code, only for such a response...

    /me goes back to coding a 7d browser hehehe
  • trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Why the hell would I want to distort the ***** out of a website which is meant to be 2d? This is pointless and just proves the point that just because you can use technology for cool eye candy effects it can in fact make things less user friendly and actually hurt the user experience. Screw this I will stick to my regular 2d browser because it actually gives me a better user experience, Am I the only one who now wants to play some KOF on the neo-geo?"

    If you want people to read your opinion why not at least read theirs and besides the fact that you obviously didn't read the other comments your opinion might be more worth while if you actually _read_ the article instead of just looking at the pretty shiny pictures. I am sorry for the flaming but I am really seeing digg go down hill. I may just be in a bad mood right now but seriously, how many times have you seen a story dugg by the hundreds when it has been down without a mirror since it hit the front page. If anyone actually reads this please comment, whether you agree or not, so that I know that commenting here isn't completely futile.
  • Alkali, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1agree
  • RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0more like barf browser from motion sickness
  • dlichteman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0would be cool if there were 3d website....cool however....dugg
  • pancho, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0worse idea ever!!!!!
  • haloevo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Pointless. No digg.
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+01 word: why.
  • salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0here i was hoping the uTorrent team had built a browser that was 80k :)
  • boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dugg for Google Local (fka Google Maps) on a sphere. brings new meaning to the term 'digital globe'...
  • mordea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Why would I want to severely warp my view of Web pages? It looks to be quite the headache creator.
  • Zipp425, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It reminds me of the 3d desktop... Good in theory, bad in practice...
  • eclipxe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5A lot of people are really narrow minded. "WHY WOULD I WANT A 3D BROWSER, STUPID!"

    If you take two seconds to read the site (or hell even read the comments - someone was nice enough to copy and paste it for you) you would see this is designed to be used within a 3D environment. In SecondLife, it would be helpful to have a web-browser that could be embedded in the game environment. Since this environment is 3D, you would naturally need a browser than be rendered on a 3D surface.

    Just read a bit before posting stupid comments.
  • segosa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Screenshot: http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/317/ubrowser5ta.png

    (notice first story)
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