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RE: [www-vrml] VRML still the most popular Web3D format - by far.
Hi, Braden --
What ever gave you the idea that EXTERNPROTO has been abandoned? It is an
integral part of X3D!
-- Dick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-www-vrml@web3d.org
> [mailto:owner-www-vrml@web3d.org] On Behalf Of Braden McDaniel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 9:50 PM
> To: Len Bullard
> Cc: Tony Parisi; 'Viveka Weiley'; 'VRML list'
> Subject: RE: [www-vrml] VRML still the most popular Web3D
> format - by far.
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Braden McDaniel e-mail:
> <braden@endoframe.com>
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