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

[Braden McDaniel <braden@endoframe.com>]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 12:41 -0500, Len Bullard wrote:
> It's about learning by example over spamming. 
> It's about being able to get a few bits back per bits offered 
> as in Google adSense.
> 
> VRML won't die because there is nothing else.  X3D is still 
> VRML.

By heritage and proclamation. Nonetheless, a valid VRML97 file is not a
valid X3D file. Perhaps that detail wouldn't matter if translation were
possible 100% of the time; but AFAICT, it's not...

>   X3D is just integration plus more features. 

<http://www.web3d.org/x3d/faq/index.html#technical-2>

The abandonment of EXTERNPROTO as a browser extension mechanism should
not be trivialized. The text in the above link says that, "The way to
provide browser-specific extensions is through custom components." But
how do you refer to one of these "custom components" over the network?

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Braden McDaniel                           e-mail: <braden@endoframe.com>
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