Re: [Wikitech-l] Join mediawiki for GSOC 2013

Hi! For rendering of x3d files there is x3dom that is the "official" library of the web3D consortium. It provides two backends: one using webGL and a fallback using Flash. http://www.x3dom.org . This library looks pretty easy to integrate with MediaWiki. Tpt Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> a écrit : On 2013-02-24 5:21 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote: wrote: interesting lineAdd support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki (particularly to Wikimedia, but even generally to third parties). However it would also be more difficult and also represents quite a bit more work. Sorry I realized that wasnt actually answering your question. What type of information were you looking for? For the x3d one - you would probably be doing two main things. First you would need to write a filter that validates the file, and more importantly strips any dangerous elements ( im not familar with x3d format, but for example if user can also supply arbitrary macro scripts we would want to filter that out probably, etc). Second step would probably be to include some way of displaying the 3d models inline in articles (maybe some webgl js library exists that could be integrated in mediawiki, you would have to do some research there) Its possible a gsoc project could be scoped to be just the first step, or both steps depending on how much work that is. For background research you may want to check out extensions that do the same thing but for different formats, e.g. OggHandler (which isn't used anymore but a lot simpler than its replacement), and PagedTiffHandler. Emw has also started work on displaying 3d models of chemicals which sounds related (not sure how related it actually is) I hope that was helpful. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l