AjaxLife Blog

AjaxLife service has been temporarily suspended, pending investigation into its intermittent but extremely frequent refusal to make any connections to anything for no entirely obvious reason. As long as it’s in this state, running it costs me money for no benefit to anyone whatsoever.

Hopefully it’ll be back soon.

This release contains no changes to 0.6.1 aside from restoring compatibility with IE.

As promised, some actual development has taken place and AjaxLife 0.6.1 has been released (AjaxLife 0.6 was released and lasted about ten hours due to an annoying bug related to S3 and textures).

So, changes!

• Group chats can now be created, listened and responded to
• The map actually displays a map
  • The map blocks are no longer requested in its entirety at the start. The upshot of this is that AjaxLife will not hang until 2MB of map data has been downloaded and processed, instead loading it as they become visible on the map.
  • SL’s region search has been implemented (it had to be, really, since we no longer know of every region in advance)
• Textures download correctly. This affects textures from inventory and 1st Life pictures (2nd Life pictures are pulled off the new SL search anyway)
• llOwnerSay now appears in yellow
• LSL highlighter is up to date (…I think)
• HTTPS links will be linked appropriately
• Links are clickable in the message of the day
• Newlines are displayed in login errors

Have a screenshot of a working map:

Additionally, it should now be somewhat simpler to run your own AjaxLife server; it no longer has any external dependencies. The 0.6.1 dependencies and source (no binaries right now; sorry) may be downloaded from the Downloads page. The new source may be browsed here.

AjaxLife is actually being actively developed again. Shocking, I know.

In any case, AjaxLife 0.6 is almost ready. This is mostly a maintenance release, with the following improvements:

• The map now works as expected
• Textures now display as expected
• Group chat now works as expected
• HTTPS links now work as expected
• Parcel tracking now works as expected
• llOwnerSay from objects is coloured appropriately
• LSL highlighter is up-to-date

Actual new features will materialise later on. Additionally, a rewritten iPhone client is in progress. Coinciding with this release, I will once again start requesting donations (For the last year or so I have not requested donations, as it didn’t feel fair to ask them for something not actively being developed).

Oh, and the source code is now at http://github.com/Katharine/AjaxLife.