[x3d-public] browser option dashboard, table placement, typo

[Andreas Plesch]

> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:28:33 -0700
> From: GPU Group <gpugroup at gmail.com>
>
> Options - Dashboard - NavigationInfo > hypothesis: historically the idea
> was to show navigationInfo.type subset on dashboard, or no dashboard if
> navigationIfno.type = "NONE", and all types on dashboard if "ANY" in type
> list.

Ah, I would not have guessed that but seems to make sense. Why not make
this more explicit in the spec. language ?

If dashboard means browser gui then default should be true. If dashboard
means virtual cockpit / joystick then probably false.

> Options - in NetworkingCompoent > hypothesis: related to html
> <embed><PARAM> back when web browsers allowed binary object embedding.

Hm, the spec also mentions config files and Param is kind of obsolete. To
me, browser options need to apply to standalone x3d browsers just as well.
In the networking component section, the browser options are hard to
discover.

v4 would be a good opportunity to find a better place.

Andreas

> -Doug Sanden
>
> more...
> current FreeWRL
> - COM/ActiveX and NPAPI web browser plugins no  published with desktop
> binary
> -- so no html <embed><PARAM> documentation needed (although plugins can
> still be built from old code)
> - all navigation modes always available to user via 'dashboard' / menu bar
> -- dashboard/menu bar available by default
> -- dashboard/menu bar can be hidden by command-line parameter, for museum
> mode
> - options panel - always available if dashboard/menu bar is available
> - command-line options, and SAI options also available
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 6:20 PM Andreas Plesch <andreasplesch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Short summary:
> > The default value for Dashboard in Table 9.2 should be 'false'. Agreed ?
> > The table and the whole section 9.2.4 needs a new home, perhaps in
> > concepts, or core.
> > Section 4.4.2.4.2 typo: ISO/IEC 197775 should read ISO/IEC 19775.
> > Perhaps already fixed ?
> >
> > Cheers, -Andreas
> >
> > Longer prose with links:
> >
> > Table 9.2 in
> >
> >
> >
https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/networking.html#t-BrowserProperties
> >
> > has a "Dashboard" browser option. It's default value is supposed to be
> > derived from the (first?) bound NavigationInfo node in the scene.
> >
> > However, NavigationInfo in the spec.
> >
> >
> >
https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/navigation.html#NavigationInfo
> >
> > does not seem have a related field. Should the default just become
'false'
> > ?
> >
> > Also, Table 9.2 seems misplaced in the networking component section. A
> > better place may be in
> >
> >
> >
https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/concepts.html#X3Dbrowsers
> >
> > or perhaps in the abstract SAI spec., next to
> >
> >
> >
https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-2/V3.3/Part02/servRef.html#setBrowserOption
> >
> > and a new, proposed getBrowserOption function, similar to
> > getBrowserProperty which has a table.
> >
> > Finally, section 4.4.2.4.2 Modifying objects via programmatic access in
> >
> >
> >
https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/concepts.html#ModifyingObjectsViaProgrammaticAccess
> >
> > has a typo at the end of the third paragraph:
> >
> > ISO/IEC 197775 should read ISO/IEC 19775.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andreas Plesch
> > Waltham, MA 02453
> >
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