[X3D-Public] ECMAScript / JavaScript Book

Joe D Williams joedwil at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 17 11:10:25 PST 2010


http://www.hypermultimedia.com/x3d/URLTests/

Here are some "internal sai" examples that update a URL
I'm using bscontact in minefield right now
seems like 7.212 stopped working in IE.
Best Regards,
Joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johannes Behr" <johannes.behr at igd.fraunhofer.de>
To: "Dave A" <dave at realmofconcepts.com>
Cc: "Don Brutzman" <brutzman at nps.edu>; <x3d-public at web3d.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [X3D-Public] ECMAScript / JavaScript Book


My $0.02:

The only thing that would really help are automated union-tests for 
the Javascript/SAI interface.
The tests should be developed and available through a web3d svn/git

The results could and should published online.

regards
johannes


On 16 Feb 2010, at 04:37, Dave A wrote:

> This page (thanks Damon) is a good start. But too general:
>
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/wiki/index.php/Player_support_for_X3D_components
>
> Ex: the 'switch' statement appears unsupported in Contact's 
> ecmascript. The string
> support there is also quite minimal. Such things are supported by 
> other browsers.
> So if you want to write something that runs in more than one 
> browser, you have
> to take a lowest-common-denominator approach and/or special case for 
> each browser,
> and do they all identify themselves to the script? We need to 
> determine what
> the common denominator is, and a have browsers identify themselves 
> (if they don't
> already).
>
> Dave A.
>
> Tom Sparks wrote:
>> --- On Tue, 16/2/10, Dave A <dave at realmofconcepts.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Received: Tuesday, 16 February, 2010, 6:49 AM
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> What would really be helpful is a
>>> page, perhaps a Wiki? where different
>>> x3d implementors
>>> can post (perhaps in a tabular form) which parts of that
>>> spec they
>>> support, and what
>>> extensions if any they have provided. Scripts in Vivaty
>>> won't run in
>>> Contact and vice versa,
>>> for example, due to such differences.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I second that
>>
>>
>>
>>> Dave Arendash
>>>
>>> Don Brutzman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tom Sparks wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Are there any Emcascript / Javascript books that
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> you can recommend?
>>>
>>>
>>>> not a book, but the Ecmascript spec is freely
>>>>
>>>>
>>> available (and bundled
>>>
>>>
>>>> in X3D-Edit, along with editing support).  this
>>>>
>>>>
>>> document is handy for
>>>
>>>
>>>> looking up function calls and such, plus it is
>>>>
>>>>
>>> authoritative (rather
>>>
>>>
>>>> than the many nonstandard variants that have evolved
>>>>
>>>>
>>> in html browsers).
>>>
>>>
>>>> online at
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.web3d.org/specifications/Ecma-262.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> I have paged/scrolled through that, but it too dry of a read
>> Where is the source code examples?
>>
>> while with X3D there is a book that show you the basics
>> and how to read X3D's specs
>>
>> tom sparks
>>
>>
>>>> all the best, Don
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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