3D web, finally?
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- zarkonite0
oh look, just like Apple's new CSS extensions for Safari.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/new…
Now it's Microsoft's turn in 3... 2...1...
- monospaced0
NERDS!!!
- Nairn0
Why spin this in to some infantile OS debate, zarkonite? Your link is in no way comparable - it's a set of (imo, largely redundant) 3d space effects for traditional CSS_controlled UI elements. As imaginative as a programmer might be, that is a dirty route to go down, and one that is distinctly limited and short-sighted.
Also, you neglect to recognise that, in your link, Apple are guilty of all the exact-same proprietary mistakes that Microsoft have made over the net's past history, by trying to inflict their worldview on everyone else, without discussion or compromise.
What my links refer to is an industry-supported glomeration of relevant interests to hammer out a universally acceptable format for all to use, sans royalty or allegiance to another's crown.
- infantile, glomeration, allegiance...
Hot damn, now this is a searing post.harlequino - oh... and he used sans as well. uber modern approach to the argument nairn :DAmicus
- infantile, glomeration, allegiance...
- ukit0
- Amicus0
3D shmeeD... what we need is the hologram technology utlised by Obi Wan with the R2D2 droid. Then we'll be getting somewhere.
- monNom0
My what short memories we have.VRML
Adobe Atmosphere
WILD TANGENT (fantasitc way to load you computer with spyware)
Web3d
X3D
Papervision3D
HTML Canvas Tag ( try this in non-IE browsers http://www.benjoffe.com/code/dem…)
Et al.nobody wants to read shit in 3 dimensions.
- Nairn0
I just saw this, in the Slashdot article's comments. I take it to be approximately true.
"Umm, do you have any idea who the Khronos group is? It's Apple, Sun, Id, Creative, Sony, Intel, AMD/ATI, and NVIDIA among others. They make OpenGL and pretty much all of them have a vested interest in keeping the standards open and usable by everyone and NOT controlled by Microsoft. The main purpose behind Khronos these days is to provide a usable alternative to DirectX."
- BattleAxe0
- You should try this link out in Chrome : http://www.chromeexp…Nairn
- braaad0
There is still too much to improve on in the 2D web...and porn.
- Nairn0
Google release First-Gen API...
- Pupsipu0
awesome, it's like a giant shit on Flash
- zarkonite0
@Nairn
You extrapolated the hell out of a benign statement... I didn't mention anything about OS. It may shock you to know that Microsoft and Apple do much more than just operating systems.
Do you know how AJAX works? one of the key elements is the XMLHTTPRequest which allows you to fetch information server-side and send it back into the user agent. It was originally built by Microsoft as part of their proprietary ActiveX controls... ffwd a few years, look at it now!
Javascript itself was a proprietary language of the Netscape Navigator and.... look at it now!
OpenGL came out of SGI's efforts to create their own graphics API. etc etc etc.
Apple is constently, like most technology outfits, trying to impose its will. A good example is the "standard" XML based OOXML format that in fact is just what MS submitted (DOCX) to the IEEE for approval as an ISO.
Khronos is a group of companies that want to LOOK like they're fighting the good fight but MS, Apple, Sun and Google are all on the board at the same time as developping their own technology... the way it usually happens is that Company X makes its own thing, based on the expertise they've developped they submit some or all of it to be reviewed as a standard and then some or all of it is accepted and goes on to become a standard.
My point is simple, whatever WORKS BEST BECOMES STANDARD and let the games begin, this kind of top-level techo-competition is what drives innovation forward.
oh, and fuck you too.
- janne760
fuck that.. you can already do anything at zombo.com
- don't push your methods on merzrffglyr
- your only limit is yourselfuberdesigner
- the unattainable is attainabledbloc
- uberdesigner0
this will be used for more bad than good
- Pupsipu0
right, but the shitty part is, if Flash doesn't support this stuff in their API soon, it will be fucking annoying to port what I want to do to javascript or whatever script.
- airey0
great. now blogs in 3d.
irony = a lack of depth shown in 3d.
- uberdesigner0
what if the web ends up looking like Second Life?