Message: 5 Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:46:18 -0500 From: Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de Subject: Re: [Commons-l] WebGL enabled in Firefox nightlies To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: b4326860909251746t9dc83a5j1a0dbdb669708765@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Back from the old days of VRML - I remember there used to be a plugin
Uhm, VRML is dead. And it's successor is not WebGL, but X3D. There are plenty of plugins for all operating systems. FreeWRL [1] and InstantPlayer [2] being two of the more active projects
[1] http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.instantreality.org/downloads/
Yes i know - the point being (and bear in mind i don't know very much about 3d stuff, so take anything i say with salt) that if we wanted to display some content natively to firefox using web gl, and than have a java applet as a back up if no native support. (like we do for ogg). the java vrml players were java applets that displayed 3d things, hence i assume they could be used as a backup (I have no idea if thats true or not). The point of it being java is that people wouldn't have to download plugin
-Cheers, bawolff.
This may be of interest as a potential source of material if we could get them to work with us.
http://southdownsliving.blogspot.com/2009/10/3d-wikipedia-of-art.html