Re: [www-vrml] Re: [x3d-public] Web3D Zeitgeist - most popular format, one year on.

[Bob Crispen - The VRMLworks <revbob@crispen.org>]

The voices are telling me John Carlson said on 9/27/2005 1:29 AM:

> My prediction:  Microsoft will win the Web 3D war.  Who's going to sell
> that technology to Microsoft?

I don't think so.  Maybe once, but not now.  The dominant 3D application 
on the web is Google Earth.  Some Geo-VRML friends and alumni are 
thinking about that, and perhaps how X3D could import KML, are they not?

[snip]

> Oh, you don't use mozilla?  Well, that's a problem!

Second minor quibble: I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who's running 
a VRML plugin in Opera and MSIE as well as Firefox.

No, I don't think I missed the point: getting 3D capability into a web 
browser is the holy grail, but (a) Macromedia got along without it and 
(b) if anybody working on Mozilla remembers when Netscape Navigator 
download included a built in VRML plugin there was such wailing over 
download size and browser bloat that it's probably going to be a hard 
sell.  Not undoable, but hard, and as Flash has shown us, not strictly 
necessary.
--
Bob Crispen
The VRMLworks
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http://vrmlworks.crispen.org/
Ex Cathedra Weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/

Putting angle brackets around things is not a technology by itself.
- Sergei Brin
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