Re: SPEC - Post Hocalypse

Robert DiFalco ([email protected])
Sun, 28 May 1995 15:56:53 -0700


>2) Caution. A year ago when this all started we knew that our job would be to
>plant a garden, *not* build a coliseum. Many people have asked for
>clarification of the semantics of a number of features that, in our humble
>opinions, need to remain unclear until we, as a community, get more
>experience. We have entered virgin territory, and should explore it
>cautiously. Kudos again to Gavin for *not* trying to ram every feature of
>Inventor or WebSpace functionality down our throats. He has been quite
>sensitive to the needs of other rendering technologies and tool makers.

Caution, IMHO, is one of the key factors to good design. I applaud your
efforts in trying to maintain a high level of abstraction. We don't want to
create legacy code before we even begin and we don't want to solve problems
in VRML that should be solved somewhere else out of impatience for features.

Robert