Re: [x3d-public] Shaders and Triangles: was dedicated working-group focus on X3D interoperability

[Alan Hudson <giles@yumetech.com>]

Dave A wrote:
> With this and other threads going around, it seems to me that the question
> being asked is: for whom should X3D be easy for: browser/plugin 
> programmers,
> or content authors.  My vote: content authors. Unfortunately, the spec
> has largely been driven by browser programmers. This IMHO is why X3D has
> been problematic.

Well in the previous discussion I think the question was should the X3D 
language be optimized for HTML-like programmers or low-level 3D graphics 
programers?

Your vector is also a valid question.  The answer is of course both. 
The language must be useful to content authors and must run quickly 
while being implementable by browser developers.  The X3D group has a 
reasonable amount of content authors but it could always use more.   But 
in the end we have to have at least one implementation of each feature 
to push it forward and group consensus its a good idea.  So feature 
requests on their own is not enough to get it done.
--
Alan Hudson

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