[x3d-public] Mantis issue 976: Implicit fields in Classic VRML encoding

[Don Brutzman]

With respect to (wrt) Mantis issue 976: Implicit fields in Classic VRML encoding

	http://www.web3d.org/member-only/mantis/view.php?id=976
	(.pdf attached)

On 10/23/2017 5:39 AM, Roy Walmsley wrote:
> Dear Yves,
> 
> Back on the 19^th April 2016 you submitted a candidate amendment to the Classic VRML encoding, where you proposed a modification to the grammar to allow a terser encoding (see the links below).
> 
> Reference: http://web3d.org/pipermail/x3d-public_web3d.org/2016-April/004720.html
> 
> Reference: http://web3d.org/pipermail/x3d-public_web3d.org/2016-August/005140.html
> 
> Reference: http://web3d.org/pipermail/x3d-public_web3d.org/2016-August/005141.html
> 
> We recently reviewed this proposal in detail, as part of our updating of V3.3 of X3D to V4.0. We agreed that the “approach is likely to be technically feasible in most cases, and provides excellent insight. Nevertheless the benefits of terseness in VRML encodings is far outweighed by difficulties and problems associated with such a fundamental change in the grammar and in parser implementations. The editors do not want to pursue such a change.”
> 
> We thank you for contributing your ideas, and are always very appreciative all input from the community. We hope that you will continue to comment and help us to improve X3D.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Roy

Dick and I also wanted to convey our thanks.  While every good idea can't be applied and still maintain continuity across players/content/encodings/languages, the spirit of innovation remains really important and often leads to significant progress.

Also thanks for your patience... this has taken a while but be continue working through the backlog.

More members with access and "more hands on deck" always help.  Please keep contributing (and we hope that you + others join too).  Again thanks.

	http://www.web3d.org/join

all the best, Don
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