Good point.
> On the other hand, if we wound up implementing this idea, I would
> *definitely* want to create a browser that can read from CD-ROM, with
> an eye towards eventually issuing a disk chock-full of useful toys...
>
My idea exactly.
But it sounds like we'll need a "name registry" to handle the
identification, i.e. naming of standard objects such as "utah-teapot" and
"bay-window" (apologies to architects/interior designers reading the
list). In this way a VRML scene can be published which instances such
objects and allows the browser to optimize bandwidth, or provide a
personalized view of an object (a *key* feature, according to some human
factors folk) by using locally defined rendering descriptions. Naturally,
such scenes should also define fallback URLS in case the named object
can't be found locally.
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tony parisi
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