From jaimelm at umich.edu Fri Oct 2 13:57:18 2009 From: jaimelm at umich.edu (Jaime Magiera) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:57:18 -0400 Subject: [X3D-Public] Are we still alive? Message-ID: <41B2B856-51D7-4DFB-AC4D-E47BC1FD18BA@umich.edu> Suddenly, things got real quiet. Jaime Magiera Apple Certified Technical Coordinator The University of Michigan From joedwil at earthlink.net Fri Oct 2 15:07:31 2009 From: joedwil at earthlink.net (Joe D Williams) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:07:31 -0700 Subject: [X3D-Public] Are we still alive? - HTML5 References: <41B2B856-51D7-4DFB-AC4D-E47BC1FD18BA@umich.edu> Message-ID: <0B92C71A470B45BFAE13DFB5390BA9DB@joe1446a4150a8> > Suddenly, things got real quiet. How about livening it up with comments about this: http://www.web3d.org/x3d/wiki/index.php/X3D_and_HTML5#Goals:_X3D_and_HTML5 More soon. We are working on organizing our info and tactics, True, it is unknown what HTML5 will be, but it is the next generation, so it will be an advance. The Good news is that G, Ff, Op, Sa, and even IE will do a lot of HTML5 now. A basic concept is that the doctype now looks like this: along with the desired HTML or XHTML MIME, and it will be clear what is old conforming, new conforming, and obsolete. http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Actually Web3D has a mission to attend the next W3C TPAC meeting in Santa Clara 4, 5, and 6 of November. http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/ I'm one of three representing Web3D.org, which is a member of W3C, in the HTML Working Group activities. In this effort, the major goal of Web3D is to have X3D included as the native declarative syntax for interactive 3D in HTML and XHTML. Specific tasks are gettiing consistent behaviors between browsers using the