[X3D-Public] pseudo-related - was Re: Historical question

[Dave A]

Thanks Jon. I'm all for cleaning up the generators. Too bad Vivaty 
Studio is off.
It's hard to find the 'least common denominator' that would run on all 
platforms without
having the entire spec in-brain.

On 6/6/2011 11:10 AM, John Stewart wrote:
> Dave;
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> reading between the lines; some background:
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> 1) FreeWRL used to be very "accepting" of syntax.
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> 2) Some people complained that "invalid syntax" ran in FreeWRL; (see note below)
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> 3) some tightening up of spec compliance has occurred. In particular, if you invoke "strict" parsing, (eg, command line "freex3d", if it is built for your platform) will check each node and each field against specified profiles.
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> The note above; I can really understand people wanting the browsers to correctly implement the spec, and only the spec. On the other hand, the generators should respect the spec, the viewers should render what it can, even if it is not totally 100% correct.
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> (it has been a few years since I wrote the tightening via the "freex3d" invocation method;  have not looked at this part of the code in a long time; I assume it still works)
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> Thanks for the interesting discussion.
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> JohnS.
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