Re: LANG- VRML 1.x Binary Fo

Robert DiFalco ([email protected])
Wed, 31 May 1995 20:52:38 -0700


Tom,

>Has anyone given any thought to the idea of allowing only changes to the
>worlds to be transmitted? For example, a user may have a copy of world cached
>or on CD-ROM, and want to get only the changes since a certain date. Seems
>like this could decrease traffic quite a bit.

Good idea, however, it sounds like a client or server feature. But you did
get me thinking about the addition of versioning information to VRML. This
would give the server or client enough information to do what you have
proposed without adding specialized machinerey for it.

Robert