[x3d-public] [x3dom-developers] [X3D-Public] Prototype

[Behr, Johannes]

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> Don't x3dom components solve the proto problem? I've used them and they seem a lot less obtuse than protos

Partially. You can use x3dom components to provide e.g. a node-library but not to declare new node types as part of your content. This is what you can do with prototypes. 

Best regards
Johannes

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> On 2015-02-14, at 15:08, David Sankel <camior at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Alan Hudson <alan at shapeways.com> wrote:
>> Not too be a hater but I don't think its a good idea to include PROTO's into X3DOM.  The VRML/X3D proto spec + scripting interactions is very hard to get cross platform.  I spent many years dealing with it and its just too much work.
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>> Could you elaborate on specifically where the difficulties lie?
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>> -- David Sankel 
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