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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff text=#000000><BR><BR><BR>May 3, 2010 08:43:56 PM, pyth7@verizon.net wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Seems like a 'user defined' protocol should have been a required option, and<BR>a public version spec'ed out for anyone to implement. <BR><BR>But I can see why no commercial player vendor would implement such, they<BR>need to increase their user-base, you do that by requiring your player.</DIV>
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<DIV>[Russ Kinter]: Seems to me they could increase their user-base without having to hamstring a standard by simply making their viewer more robust and a better all around product, but maybe that would be too much work and besides how else are they going fuel distrust and cynicism?</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Hoping x3dom helps us all.</DIV>
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<DIV>[Russ Kinter]: I dunno. I think this list wants to perpetually live in 1996-97, which is even funnier coming from someone like myself who subtitled their site "The Nineties Preservation Society".</DIV>
<DIV>Back around 2004 someone wanted to rename the use-net VRML list X3D at a time when X3D browsers were basically at a 1996-97 level of functionality -lots of broken stuff, but we were told to be patient. Now that cycle starts all over. The carrot is in front of the donkey again. Gotta go check my "WorldCom" -later!<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></html>