Re: [FreeWRL-develop] gzip was Roadmap > add, like?

[doug s. <hig...@ho...>]

-> > FreeWRL and libfreewrl
> > user uptake
> > - web3d.org feature set conformance and extension
> we need the zipped form of x3d, for large files
> > ..extension
> but the specs have a funny kind of zip working per-field. I think it should be a standard .zip of a folder/directory with image resources, extern protos and .x3d scene, like googleEarth's .kmz. This would allow the x3d-over-dae (collada) idea to jive with kml-over-dae of googleEarth.
>
There is a gzip mimetype for x3d .x3dz that will hold 1 x3d scene file (no .tar of folder).
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> > Related projects
> > - web3d content
> The international space station ISS has a lot of twitter followers. Here's an X3D model of ISS
> http://dug9.users.sourceforge.net/web3d/tests/NASA/ISS.x3d
> To make it I downloaded a .3ds model from NASA
> http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/
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The ISS .x3d model has no external resources, so here it is gzipped:
http://dug9.users.sourceforge.net/web3d/tests/NASA/ISS.x3dz
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I would still like a way to zip or tar.gz a folder with scene file, extern protos, /imaages /dae and have freewrl download and handle it.
This mimetype list shows .x3dz
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/docs/conf/mime.types?view=annotate 
model/x3d+binary x3db x3dbz
model/x3d+vrml x3dv x3dvz
model/x3d+xml x3d x3dz
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Since .x3dz has already been taken, I propose
model/x3d+xml+zip .x3z
for a (tar.gz or) .zip of a directory containing main.x3d scene, extern protos, anchor-to scenes, inlines, /images /dae
-Doug