Re: about public browsers etc.

Chris Marrin ([email protected])
Mon, 15 May 1995 13:47:15 -0700


> You could also add a way to browse these same text representation with
> any HTML browser. Each of the numbered entries above could be a link
> which takes you to the next .wrl file. They could be collected from
> the document and put into a numbered list. Gopher could browse it too.

Actually, it would be pretty easy to write a converter, based on QvLib,
which would take a VRML page and generate an HTML page from it. Then you
could add a mailcap entry for x-world/x-vrml like this:

vrmlconvert %s > vrmltmp.html; netscape -remote 'openFile(vrmltmp.html)'

It probably would require a few tags for title text, etc. to make it
really useful, but even if it just listed all the Anchors and let you
click on the urls that would be something...

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