[X3D-Public] HTML inside X3D or X3D inside HTML. Layout help!

[Johannes Behr]

On 31 Dec 2010, at 20:43, John Carlson wrote:

> 
> On Dec 31, 2010, at 2:46 AM, GLG wrote:
> 
>> To me, it would make a lot more sense to render HTML inside
>> a 3D scene than a 3D scene inside HTML. X3D can already
>> supports multimedia assets such as sounds and movies. How
>> far are you planning to get with XML3D? Seeing HTML inside
>> X3D is one of my dreams, not the other way around. 
> 
> Makes sense to me to.  Open Cobalt and Open Wonderland do.  I think Second Life does as well.  (is it patented?) You can't fit the Earth into Flatland, but you can imagine Flatland somewhere on Earth.
> 

InstantReality and therefore the X3DOM native implementation supports it:

http://doc.instantreality.org/documentation/nodetype/BrowserTexture/

It uses WebKit for rendering and even support plugins, e.g. Flash, since 4 weeks. 

best regards
johannes

> Thanks,
> 
> John
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