RE: Browser Observations

(Me)
> > WorldView interprets the vrml code to translate all the component parts of
> > the composite objects in the test scene to where I expected. WebSpace leaves
> > parts of things behind.

(mmh)
>
>Check the nesting of your curly braces... :-)

my "first cut" code is often sloppy... I saw the error of my mistakes, and
removed (I think) the stupid scoping tricks from the filing cabinet. now it
shows up in the right place in both browsers, but something **still** seems
to leave a sort of ectoplasmic "trail" behind... perhaps from som>
translation operation?? the "trail" used to block the view of part of the
wrench, but now the "trail" is much smaller.

okay, so I probably have a scoping/inheritance problem with other
object I'm shuffling around the space, but still... the smear being rendered
at all is puzzling to me.

(mmh)
>[...] one reasonable explanation for these differences would be
>that WorldView is not

all WWWAnchor nodes are now isolated in their own Separator-wrapper

(Me)
>> --display of colors--
>>

It turns out that WorldView always has the "headlight" **on** (as far as I
can tell), and that WebSpace (if there are *any* lights in the scene) always
has the headlamp **off** and the "headlamp" choice in the menues is
greyed-out... sigh... oh well, next release...

once I toned down the color saturation in the lights, I could see the scene
okay in WebSpace. I had to wait forever to see it, but that's another story...

(mmh)
>This kind of comparison is one of the best ways to find out
>where the spec is incomplete or ambigua> .

good, glad you see the spirit of these screeds...

I hope these postings about my little "testbed" scene

http://ariadne.newcollege.edu/vrmLab/home.wrl

aren't too boring to folks. I think it is useful to the collective effort to
beat one scene to death, both to find the bugs ("that's not a bug, that's a
feature!!") and pitfalls in coding vrml, and to explore the differences
between browsers.

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