Re: Integration of java and vrml

Mark Waks ([email protected])
Fri, 2 Jun 95 14:44:45 EDT


Along this subject, something to ponder: we may want to talk about
whether we *want* to integrate VRML and Java before we start playing
with it. I'm a big fan of experimentation, but a Java integration may
pick up a lot of momentum *very* fast. The current news makes me
strongly suspect that Java's about to become the de facto standard for
HTML "behaviour", and the same thing could easily happen in VRML.

I happen to be in favor of us integrating with Java; I think it's
probably the course of least resistance for getting good behaviour,
and has some striking advantages. But if that becomes the way we
handle behaviour, I'd like to see us do so deliberately, rather than
by default...

(Yes, this is a 2.0 issue. But we need to start addressing it
seriously now, because it's going to take quite a while to get
there...)

-- Justin

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