[X3D-Public] Fwd: Re: [X3D] X3D HTML5 meeting discussions: Declarative 3D interest group at W3C

[John A. Stewart]

Hi Phillip;

On 2010-12-28, at 12:05 AM, Philipp Slusallek wrote:

> Dear Chris, all,


Thank you for your long, and informative, and well presented email.

From my perspective, all that I would add is:

1) 2010 -2020 will be the decade of the "app" - and note that the "app" does not run inside of an HTML browser;

2) *somehow* keep the ability to *somehow* render older scenes so that users have continuity with their content over years and years.

We all know these points, partcularly #2; we have all been burned numerous times by having document formats become obsolete. Backwards compatibility, while *not* fun for us, the lack of backwards compatibility will be *not fun* for users. How that compatibility gets handled might be an interesting topic in itself.

Thanks;

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