[X3D-Public] Test X3DOM: Firefox Newbie

cbullard at hiwaay.net cbullard at hiwaay.net
Fri Dec 18 13:08:44 PST 2009


This all seems nostalgically familiar. :)

Everytime we do one of these new best of platform developments in  
VRML/X3D, we get tossed backward in content and support.  Then upwards  
and onwards.  The good news is the cycle is faster every time.

And we're still here.

len

Quoting "Yvonne Jung" <yjung at igd.fhg.de>:

> When starting a WebGL app in Minefield for the first time (which happens only
> on my Laptop with Vista 64-bit and the 32-bit nightly build), it first seems
> to hang-up but after a while Minefield is alive again and then everything
> works.
> But there still seems to be a memleak somewhere (currently I don't know if in
> the Browser or in x3dom or in both), because after running x3dom for a while,
> the Windows version of Minefield either crashes or complains that it  
> has no GL
> capabilities -- but with Google Chrome for example there are no such problems
> albeit it seems to misinterpret things like blending.
>
> Bye
> Yvonne
>
> Am Fr, 18.12.2009, 21:37, schrieb cbullard at hiwaay.net:
>> Thanks Yvonne.  Did that which is what I meant by webGL set to  
>> true.  No joy.
>>
>> BTW:  This machine is running Vista.  I will try this at home with a
>> newer machine running XP over the weekend.  I've a number of models
>> from the early VRML2.0 worlds that are built with primitives and I can
>> use to test X3DOM.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> len
>>
>> Quoting "Yvonne Jung" <yvonne.jung at zgdv.de>:
>>
>>> Yes, you still need to enable WebGL. Type about:config in the address bar,
>>> then search for webgl and change the value of  
>>> webgl.enabled_for_all_sites to
>>> true.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>> Yvonne
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Fr, 18.12.2009, 21:09, schrieb cbullard at hiwaay.net:
>>>> When running the Windows build with webGL set to true:
>>>>
>>>> ERROR: No 3D context found...INFO: setupContext: canvas=[object
>>>> HTMLCanvasElement]INFO: Initializing X3DCanvas for
>>>> [x3dom-spheres-canvas]INFO: Creating canvas for X3D element...INFO:
>>>> Found 1 X3D nodes...
>>>>
>>>> Is there something else I should have installed along with Minefield's
>>>> nightly build?
>>>>
>>>> len
>>>>
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>>> ---
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> ---
> Yvonne Jung
> Fraunhofer-IGD    | Tel.: ++49-6151-155-290
> Fraunhoferstr. 5  | Fax.: ++49-6151-155-196
> 64283 Darmstadt   | email: yvonne.jung at igd.fraunhofer.de
> Germany           | http://www.igd.fhg.de/igd-a4
>
>
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