Please let me know what you think.
Remember you said that Alan ;)
In a lot of respects I agree with you. I hate that I work so hard at a
product that falls so short and is viewed by so few (and who knows what it
will look like if they do see it), and has such a limited lifespan. VRML is
dead.
Bob wrote:
Just start off with
the idea in mind that you don't know what events are -- that they
*aren't* like anything you're familiar with, and you'll get it.
And then you'll get really annoyed with the people who designed it.
That event-cascade thing has some incredibly annoying side
Miriam wrote:
* I would like to see a simpler, less wordy language.
I totally agree with Cindy: the problem here is not the wordiness of the
language, it's the dearth of good authoring tools. Nobody should ever have
to write {VRML, X3D} by hand. Top creators will probably still have to
By the way, we've got a couple of dozen people on this list. The list
software doesn't have a "who" command. I would like to post a copy of the
list membership to the list (I think it'd be cool for everyone to see who's
here), but I don't want to step on any toes. If you do *not* want your
Wow - great discussions going on here, cool.
One thing I wanted to clear up was something that I guess I didn't get
across too clearly - I'm not a non-technical guy, I'm a non-bureaucratic guy -
Heck I make my living programming. When I said I get lost in the technical
jargon on the
My thoughts on the long view are this. 3D is the future of web design. It
will come to pass. I will to do my best to towards the effort to make that
happen. If this means working within the limitations of the vrml plugins,
and existing hardware, then I will do that.
The future of 3D is dependent
