AJAXLife Second Life client by 15-year old female developer
According to the Second Life TOS, teenage developer Katharine Berry can’t go on the main grid, but that hasn’t stopped her from creating a SL client that runs in AJAX in the browser she’s penned AjaxLife. Ajaxian offers a full list of features for AjaxLife which includes: teleporting, basic map, inventory, person search and chat.
I just tried this out, encountering difficulty getting in (maybe the server is getting pounded?) and found it way too slow to be able to do much. Not meant as a slam because Katharine clearly admits this is an early work in progress. Here’s a screenshot:
Impressive for a single developer, never mind the fact that she’s only 15. Ajaxian has plenty more screenshots to look at. Might want to check out when the rest of the world isn’t using. Keep in mind if you try with one of your ALTs that your username/password is moving across Katharine’s server. She claims she isn’t sniffing them but you’d be best advised not to use an important alt.
Just imagine what kinds of creations we’ll see when (if?) the server side of Second Life is opened up.
October 8th, 2007 • 
TD Goodliffe • 
comment | October 8, 2007 at 19:29 | individual comment-link
It usually runs reasonably fast, except when people from sites like Reddit and Ajaxian appear out of nowhere and start punding on it. It’s fast enough to use when this isn’t the case, or when I’m sitting there tweaking things as it runs.
Oh, and if you even think about using Internet Explorer it just fails utterly. I tried working on fixes for it, got most of it fixed, then watched as the JavaScript engine ran way too slowly for things like inventory to be usable anyway. Grumble grumble grumble
pingback | October 9, 2007 at 05:02 | individual pingback-link
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comment | October 17, 2007 at 09:26 | individual comment-link
I can’t find the AJAXLIFE how do I use it