[x3d-public] more on web media, structure and behavior. Trying to focus on what can be/should be styled.

[Joe D Williams]

> I don’t think anything else in X3D should be stylized (not 
> appropriate, or other technology is already in place).

css in html just serves to make it not necessary to use a script nodes 
and attributes of the dom using dom script by addressing the .style 
element of the node instead of directly change the attribute string 
value. In many applications css could eliminate the need to build the 
variable initial scene from a script This makes it simple to create an 
initialized state for a scene as well as change it in accordance with 
author intent or user interactions.

The css is built so actions on the css selectors and values cascade 
through the dom to create the scene update.

btw, what other technology like css?

Thanks and Best,
Joe


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From: <yottzumm at gmail.com>
To: <x3d-public at web3d.org>; "Joe D Williams" <joedwil at earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 12:49 PM
Subject: more on web media, structure and behavior. Trying to focus on 
what can be/should be styled.


Basically, we should CSS stylize “elements” (below) to do with 
physics.  This may include filters.  I don’t think anything else in 
X3D should be stylized (not appropriate, or other technology is 
already in place).

Just thinking!  It’s fun to think as physics as styling, when we 
otherwise think it’s so fundamental.

Where do your interests fall across the elements?  I think there’s 
more chemists and physicists than biologists here.  I’m more of a 
biomathematician.

John

WebMajor field of studyElementsAllied fields of studyMedia 
(primitives, SVG, X3D shapes)MathGeometry, Images, TextArt, Music, 
Sculpture, Film, Photography, Language, Image Processing, Remote 
SensingStructure (HTML5, XML, DOM, attributes, nodes, 
elements)ChemistryObjects, Arrays, Lists, Trees, Graphs, Tables, 
Inheritance, ClassesChemical Engineering, Taxonomy, Ontology, 
Object-OrientedStyling (CSS, amenable to styling)PhysicsPosition, 
Orientation, Animation, Color, Size, Length, Time, Mass, Force, 
ChargeCartography/Mechanical Engineering, HistoryBehavior (JavaScript, 
scripts, SAI)BiologyFunction, Scripting, Instructions, Electricity, 
Networking, DNA/RNAComputer Science/Electrical Engineering, Education, 
LogicHyper (Link, class, selector)PsychologyHyper, Meta, Self, 
ThisMetaprogramming, Cognitive ScienceDeveloper Tools, IDE, 
SeleniumMedicineLog, Diagnostic, Treatment, TestTherapy, Debugging, 
Quality Assurance