Re: [www-vrml] VRML still the most popular Web3D format - by far.

["George Birbilis" <birbilis@kagi.com>]

Hi Don,

> > Point of information:  Ken Perlin at NYU has offered his open-source
> > software renderer if anyone wants to adapt it.  You can click on lots
> > of experiments at http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin

Do you have any link to that renderer (and to sources, licensing info etc.)?
Is it written in Java? (if so I can try porting it to J# and C# too [for
.NET], still open-sourced of course)

> > Point of information:  some government/enterprise system enclaves that
> > are very strict about blocking plugin installations will allow run-time
> > applets.

yep, cause the default sandbox model (no access to dangerous OS features
like writing to files etc.) for unsinged Java applets is considered secure,
afaik there are Java applet viruses arround exploiting some vendors' JVM
bugs (luckily the recent Sun Java VMs have an autoupdate feature, plus Sun
has had agreement with MS that MSJava will be updated [via WindowsUpdate]
till 2007 for any security holes found in the future)

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George Birbilis <birbilis@kagi.com> [Microsoft MVP J#]
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