Re: A few notes on text

Gavin Bell ([email protected])
Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:38:46 -0700


On Jun 6, 4:06pm, Mark Waks wrote:
> Subject: Re: A few notes on text
> 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?

Yes, that's exactly what text inside a VRML world should be.

Implementing that will be... uh.. challenging. If WebSpace encounters such a
beast that points to http://vrml.wired.com/, what should happen? Should
netscape (or your favorite HTML browser) somehow magically appear in the 3D
world, complete with pull-down menus and dialog windows projected in 3D in
the 3D world?

That would be nice, but being able to take arbitrary X/Motif applications and
put them into a 3D world (although it has been done before-- see
http://info.arl.army.mil/~phil/xvr/index.html) is a capability you're
probably not going to see in VRML browsers for at least a few years.