[x3d-public] SAI

[Andreas Plesch]

Just clarifying that I was referring to UOM based effort to generate
functionality for many languages led by Don. More below.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 4:00 PM Joseph D Williams <joedwil at earthlink.net>
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> *From: *Andreas Plesch <andreasplesch at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Saturday, January 18, 2020 6:56 PM
> *To: *Joe D Williams <joedwil at earthlink.net>
> *Cc: *X3D Graphics public mailing list <x3d-public at web3d.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [x3d-public] X3D minutes, 17 JAN 2020: X3Dv4
> progress,renamehidden as visible, name types, Mantis issue resolution
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> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 7:41 PM Joseph D Williams <joedwil at earthlink.net>
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> ·  Ecmascript Scene Programming Interface.
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> Otherwise known as ECMAScript language bindings for our X3D scene
> authoring interface (SAI).
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> Thanks for All,
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> I am trying out different names since this effort has a different focus
> than the existing SAI.
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> This is more about construction or description, so SCI or SDI were other
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> Andreas
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Fine, Andreas,
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> I was concerned about the ‘Programming’ part of that name. Of course, for
> most uses it is eventually a runtime programming system but as you said,
> your goal might be above all that because you are describing the
> construction of a scene and its contents at an abstraction or possibly a
> automated concretization level for scene contents and interactivity at a
> level hopefully far above the style of actual x3d user code. So, scene
> description or scene construction at a very high level very isolated from
> x3d user code are closer..
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This isolation from x3d user code is why I am a bit concerned with the
potential for confusion when the JSAIL effort reuses the phrase SAI. For
me, SAI sometimes reads as Scene Access Interface.

And, yes, you are discussing an ‘interface’ in the best sense, but how does
> this work? What descriptors or constructors are you presenting to the user?
> Is there a better word than Interface?
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Perhaps just 'library' ? X3DJSDL X3D Java Scene Description Library ?



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> Thanks and Best,
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