Re: HOME SPACE BUILDER 1.0 (comments)

Jason Morphett ([email protected])
Wed, 28 Jun 1995 08:49:03 +0000

> From [email protected] Tue Jun 27 18:01:59 1995
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 09:42 PDT
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> From: Jeff Sonstein <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: HOME SPACE BUILDER 1.0
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> Kitainik Leonid <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >YOU CAN REALLY DOWNLOAD a VRML authoring tool
> >HOME SPACE BUILDER 1.0 (unsupported beta)
> >from ParaGraph's W3 site
> >
>
> In one hour of instruction, I can teachs
> and how to make
> whistles". This is one of the things which has made the html explosion
> happen: anyone can put up a document. I read recently that the http protocol
> has now overtaken the ftp protocol in total bytes being moved over the
> Internet. I think vrml can end up with most of that bandwidth.u/i>
>
> I do not think I can teachs in an
> hour... there is too much about scoping and inheritance to learn. If vrml is
> to becom> the dominant tool for viewing and conceptualizing the Internet,
> then consumer authoring products like this will be a major factor in making
> it happen.u/i>
>
> Please note: the "vrml" files produced by this software do ***not*** seem to
> be vrml 1.0 compliant. They include numera>
> in the specs, and which make
> statements *do* seem to work for the WebSpace browser, so I assume these are
> "legacy" .iv-related lines of code.u/i>
>
> If ParaGraph releases another version of this software that *is* vrml 1.0
> compliant, then I for one will probably begin using it for demos and for
> rapid prototyping of scenes. This ***could*** b> the "killer authoring app"
> for vrml, in that it ***could*** open up vrml authoring to the masses of
> non-programm>rs who "populate" the Internet. I sincerely hope this neat tool
> becom>s vrml 1.0 compliant, and take my hat off to the ParaGraph folks for
> the good work done on it so far.u/i>
>
> No flam>s, no complaints, just trying things out as they are released...
>
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> Jeff Sonstein, M.A.
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> New College of California
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Here, Here, well done Paragraph - but *please* do mak> the .WRL 100% VRML compliant.

Jason Morphett
BT Laboratories
UK