The HTML window is an unsuported feature from EQ2 Beta. Officially its been dropped/hidden from the supported UI. In other words...
use at your own risk.
There's absolutely nothing about using the window that even remotely violates the EULA. The only risk is that it may crash your client.
Since support for the window was dropped early on, its capabilities are rudimentary at best.
Its capabilities from what I've seen so far:
- It will handle basic HTML text formating, headings, bold, italics, paragraphs, and the like
- It can display basic image types, GIF, JPG.
- It does understand image alignment, so you can wrap text around an image or possition an image next to text.
- It does handle tables.
What it won't do
- It won't handle links.
- It doesn't understand most Style formatting.
- It won't display directories off a hard-drive. It becomes buggy if you give it a path to a directory rather than pointing it to a file.
- It doesn't handle anything that would require a plugin (Flash, Shockwave)
- Scripting of any kind appears to be non-functional (JavaScript, ActiveX, etc.)
- It does display some form elements but they're prety much non-functional.
So what's it good for?
Well it can be used as an effective in-game notes tool. The trick is in providing bookmarks to the info since links don't appear to work.
Guilds can use this as a way to keep members up-to-date with the latest raid strat or any other info they choose, just publish a bookmark set to the pages.
Individuals can write their own pages of EQ2 info and publish bookmark files that point directly to those pages. Even if you're not up to being an EQ2 info mogal, you can still write your own HTML pages, saved on your local drive, and create bookmarks pointing directly to those pages. Unless you tell the browser to look on the web (
http://) or another drive (D:/), the browser assumes the path you give it is relative to the top of your C-drive.
I personally hope to populate the "Zonx Home" bookmark (provided in the default install) with a series of pages full of usefull facts. Wouldn't it be nice to have quest info, HO chains, Tradeskill tips, etc. all at your fingertips without needing to Alt+Tab out of game?
It may not be the prettiest info-source, but its convenient
I will be requesting links be enabled for the browser. If that becomes functional, this window should become extreamly usefull
