[x3d-public] Issue: X3D V4 Functionality

doug sanden highaspirations at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 9 06:21:59 PDT 2015


> How do we determine what should be in the HTML Profile of X3D V4?
>
Option 1: if a node can be automatically generated from another node, then its a convenience node
In desktop x3d some nodes are 'convenience' nodes. Extrusions simplify indexedfacesets.
One thought is to eliminate all convenience nodes from html profile, if a transform can be done automatically:
convenience node -> automatic transform -> primitive node

Then if someone has a desktop x3d scene, they can upload it to a cloud facility that automatically converts it to html profile compliant. 

Option 2: As-is
The gurus working on x3dom invested their time and life, and they want to make it popular/a success,, and their judgement about tradeoffs can be trusted, so ask them. Or -since their judgement went into the current distro of x3dom- simply document the current distro as the defacto x3d html standard.

I suspect unlike native browsers, there will be few ground-up competitors to x3dom, so when you are documenting standards, its primarily for authoring tools.
-Doug


 		 	   		  


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