[X3D-Public] Web3D.org Front Page

[Joe D Williams]

Hi All,
I just wanted to make sure that this would play on any player 
interested in being associated with X3D. As before, I salvaged pieces 
of this from somebody (please see comments), added some, and edited 
the original animations. I think this code or whatever is open and so 
anybody should feel free to use it anywhere. Not that I was holding 
out, but I was hoping to win a trip to Europe for the best cut at an 
X3D logo this year, and I still at least hope to get this on the front 
page of web3d.org, but it turns out that nobody announced the contest 
so I couldn't win. Anyway. of course it could be more fancy with some 
lighting effects and textures or something but just remember it's 
supposed to run anywhere X3D Interactive is supported.

Right now the only objection I am hearing for putting this thing on 
the front page of web3d.org is that if there was a player for .x3d or 
.x3dv installed, It might blow up the front page. I just think this 
example could easily work as a potential substitute for the 2D image 
of an X3D figure not much unlike the attached example, with a simple 
<object> element and not cause anybody any problems if they visit 
web3d.org with a reasonably recent W3C browser with a reasonably 
recent X3D 'plugin' installed.

Basically, this code, which is just a minor change from what is there 
now, would work.

<div id='exampleHomeBlock'>
  <div class="sideblock" style="padding:0; text-align: center;">
    <object id='showx3dlogo' class='X3D3Dlogo'
      type='model/x3d-vrml' data='x3d_logo7c.x3dv'
      style='width:176px;height:112px;' title'Welcome to X3D'>
      <param name="src" value="x3d_logo7c.x3dv">
      <param name="DASHBOARD" value="FALSE">
        <img src="x3dTag_176x86.png"
          alt="View X3D Content in real-time">
        <div class='exampleContentLink'><a href="/x3d-content"
          title="View X3D Content in real-time">View X3D Content</a>
        </div>
    </object>
    <div class='exampleLink'>
      <a href="/x3d/wiki/index.php/Player_support_for_X3D_components"
        title="View X3D Content in real-time">Player Support</a>
    </div>
    <div class='exampleLink'>
      <a href="/x3d/wiki/index.php/Tool_support_for_X3D_components"
        title="View X3D Content in real-time">Tool Support</a>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

I think any fairly recent W3C browser will handle that html object 
element and any fairly recent X3D player is not going to choke on that 
and bring down the front page and maybe the host browser (I hope!).

So, I just want to pose this with the idea that we should progress to 
having some X3D on the web3D.org front page: Will anyone that thinks 
using some version of the above code and the attached example would be 
a hazard to the operation of web3d.org front page please speak up.

Thank You and Best Regards,
Joe
example at: http://www.hypermultimedia.com/credits.htm
(tested in four major W3C  HTML browsers and four major W3D X3D 
browsers)

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