Re: [openvrml-develop] Is openvrml still developed?

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:09 +0100, Josip Almasi wrote:

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> I'm afraid that plugin thing was a bad idea... for 10 years now, I'm 
> working on workarounds for web browser and vrml plugin bugs. Like, a 
> javascript Script node hangs works well on exploter but hangs mozilla or 
> vice versa, etc.

There is nothing about the plug-in context that makes a VRML/X3D player
more or less buggy. The fact that players have had--and continue to
have--in general, various Issues has nothing to do with plug-ins.

A reasonably full-featured VRML/X3D player is a very complex piece of
software that has dependencies on several other software layers (e.g.,
JavaScript, Java, audio and movie playback, network transport, etc.). As
such, ensuring a reasonable level of reliability across the myriad use
cases that touch the various subsystems takes a *huge* amount of effort.

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