Re: A few notes on text

Mark Waks ([email protected])
Tue, 6 Jun 95 16:06:04 EDT


Regarding the idea of using HTML for text: is there a general mechanism
trying to break out here?

Food for thought: howzabout a node that defines a "window" (a plane
that is sited in 3-D space), plus a URL that accompanies it? The URL
gets loaded and shipped off to the appropriate application (based on
MIME types); the output of that application is then displayed via the
window. A simple mechanism for allowing arbitrary 2-D programs to
display their output within VRML worlds. That way, VRML doesn't get
caught up in the details of this stuff at all -- we can let a program
*tuned* to displaying text deal with it.

I have *no* clue whether this is practical or not; I just had the idea.
Give it some thought, though -- it is often easier to deal with problems
like this in the general case than get sidetracked by the specifics...

-- Justin

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