[X3D-Public] lecture on Integrating X3DOM, jQuery and HTML5

Don Brutzman brutzman at nps.edu
Sun Dec 2 22:45:54 PST 2012


Interesting discussion about Sandy Ressler's Web3D 2012 tutorial and possible next steps.  Forwarded with permission.

	http://math.nist.gov/~SRessler/x3dom/revealjs14/jQueryTut.htm

On 11/30/2012 5:58 AM, Sandy Ressler wrote:
> Hi Don...thanks...feel free to publish the discussion and tutorial (with attribution) anywhere.
> Basically I did author the tutorial by hand and it uses the reveal.js javascript framework.
> There is a new effort by the guy that created reveal at  www.rvl.io
> you should look at that...it's a more user friendly version of reveal (although you would have to hack it to embed X3DOM or any other specific javascript stuff).
> 
> That's great that you're supporting HTML+X3DOM...I do think some template type approach should work, authoring is certainly still an issue a system like rvl.io is a step in the right direction but I suspect that to do anything interesting/useful you need more hand editable stuff like you have in X3D-Edit, but I also think it is too "geeky" and requires too much knowledge...something inbetween is still needed IMHO...anyway, very cool stuff!
> see ya...Sandy
> 
>   
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Don Brutzman wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sandy, following up on your excellent tutorial presented at Web3D 2012 last summer.
>>
>> I have cc:ed E-Learning SIG co-chair Kwan Hee Yoo on this discussion.  With your permission, I'd like to also share this discussion with the x3d-public mailing list.
>>
>> The tutorial remains wonderful!  Again thanks.
>>
>> Since then, I have been periodically working toward better support of this technology.  X3D-Edit now supports X3D export to HTML+X3DOM, and also provides a template for an HTML page embedding X3DOM.  Several thousand examples have been produced and placed online.
>> 	http://web3d.org/pipermail/x3d-public_web3d.org/2012-October/002223.html
>> 	http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/newXhtmlWithEmbeddedX3dom.xhtml
>> 	http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/HelloWorld.xhtml
>>
>> Thanks to the inspiration of your work, the X3D E-Learning group is also looking into various ways to include X3D in presentations.  (This is a good "stepping stone" towards building larger learning publications and books.)
>>
>> Question:  did you author each slide by hand?
>>
>> Am wondering if a template or similar approach might be appropriate as a slideset builder.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice, and for permission to push this discussion public.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/2/2012 9:43 AM, Sandy Ressler wrote:
>>> Thanks...fun stuff hope it's useful...Sandy
>>>
>>> On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Don Brutzman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/31/2012 6:14 AM, Sandy Ressler wrote:
>>>>> Hey Don...the URL for the jquery tutorial is at:
>>>>> http://math.nist.gov/~SRessler/x3dom/revealjs14/jQueryTut.html#/
>>>>>
>>>>> the ACM link is correct don't be confused by the picture which ACM rotates through lots of speakers the page has the info for my lecture but there is no link to the talk, the link above is pretty much it.
>>>>> Sandy
>>>>> PS not clear how the slides will be as a self guided tutorial, was created as a talk for me to talk over but should be somewhat useful
>>>>
>>>> Thank you Sandy this is really great.
>>>>
>>>> The middle mouse button worked on your slides.  Simply by scrolling I was able to go through the whole set.
>>>>
>>>> I now understand the value of being able to go "down" on slides... you can keep topic organizers at the top, and details just underneath.  Nice.
>>>>
>>>> Lots to think about... it was great to finally get some X3DOM work going in X3D-Edit, the converter seems to be working nicely on most examples online.
>>>>
>>>> Am pretty convinced that X3D 3 + X3DOM + DEC requirements + HTML5 + CSS => our path to X3D 4.  Your mashup demonstrates both the hows and whys of all this working together.
>>>>
>>>> Building 2D/3D animated slidesets well will be an excellent focusing task for getting the E-Learning group mobilized as well.
>>>>
>>>> Again many thanks for your important efforts.  Onward and upward!  Or maybe onward, upward and inward?!  BCNU.
> 
> Sandy Ressler
> High Performance Computing and Visualization Group
> National Institute of Standards and Technology
> 100 Bureau Drive, STOP 8911
> Gaithersburg MD, 20899
> (301) 975-3549 Fax: (301) 975-3218
> sressler at nist.gov


all the best, Don
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