Re: Finally!

Oliver Jowett (oliver@jowett.manawatu.planet.co.nz)
Sat, 17 Jun 1995 09:48:47 +1200 (NZST)

On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Edward Hoffmeister wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Number 6 wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Jeff Sonstein wrote:
> >
> > > if decompressed on the browser end, then slows down browser machine's
> > > rendering... if decompressed on the server end, then slows down the browser
> > > machine getting the
> > > seem to m> to point to some basic problel needing thought...
> >
> > But the
> > couldn't the browser decompress as it gets the data?
> >
> exactly,
> INTEGRATED into the browser. THen decompression could happen on-the-fly
> as the file
> as much as can be rendered
> what if anything
>

This brings up something I posted to the spec chanb>/clarification). If we want to be able to do partial
rendering, the fields (make sense anyway, but it isn't in the the fact that all fields come before children in a node needs to be
clarified in the of the node "DEF objectname objecttype { fields children }".

Minor, but it could turn out to be important when VRML proliferates...

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