Re: ANN: VRML 2.0 proposal from Microsoft

Chris Marrin ([email protected])
Thu, 7 Dec 1995 21:42:22 -0800

On Dec 7, 11:42am, Tom Meyer wrote:
> Subject: Re: ANN: VRML 2.0 proposal from Microsoft
> ...
> o It would be an intermediate layer between VRML 1.0 and Java (or
> whatever other language), and would use VRML as a rendering
> language and Java, Visual Basic, etc, as extension languages.

Hmmm. AV is a language. I have a problem with introducing yet another
language into the VRML fray as anything other than a peer to all the other
languages being bandied around. Adding AV as a layer between VRML and
<place your favorite language here) is asking for hsadaches.

Defining AV as one of the supported languages of VRML (as I stated before)
both defuses the discussion about the relationship between AV and VRML and
simplifies the scenario of adding behavior to VRML.

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