[Fenfire-dev] [vos-d] Mozilla-in-CS screenshots (fwd) + 3d UI visions

[Alatalo Toni]

Greetings,

had forgotten to mention this, 'cause was trying to elaborate some
thinking about the issues, but recalled now when was talking with Tuomas
about 2D vs. 3D interfaces -- in a way, this could be seen as a warning
example of how impractical 'default' 3d renderings of articles/pages may
be. OTOH Tuomas thought that the code (that they are have also pushed up
the Mozilla tree) for rendering with Gecko to OpenGL textures could well
be usable within Fenfire too. Actually, I mentioned (and showed
screenshots of) FenPDF to these guys (#vos on freenode) when they were
planning it, and they were tempted to 'steal' the PDF rendering code :)

Just now, this lead developer has also posted about his visions re: 3d
interfaces, see
http://www.interreality.org/pipermail/vos-d/2003-October/000398.html .
I only glimpsed it so far, will try to find the time to comment. Am
otherwise interested in their project, 'cause need to find tech for making
on-line worlds with real-time (like in network games) interaction (for
http://studio.kyperjokki.fi/FirstAndLast/ , discussion about implementing
with VOS at http://studio.kyperjokki.fi/engine/InterReality). Of course,
there could be also an application (or -tude?-o) that uses both libvob and
vos (vob vor visualisation, vos for communicating/synchronizing over the
net and managing interactions), if/as libvob is seen better for (non-game)
interfaces than e.g. crystal space and vos-like connecting is wanted.

~Toni


---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:13:37
-0400 (EDT) From: Peter Amstutz <address@hidden> Reply-To: VOS
Discussion <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject:
[vos-d] Mozilla-in-CS screenshots

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My Mozilla-in-CS plugin now works!  See:

http://interreality.org/software/crystalzilla/

There's still a lot of work to be done, such as being able to click on
links and otherwise interact with the browser and better support
higher-resolution panels (notice that it's trying to render the page to
fit into a width of 512 pixels and not quite managing it).  It also
depends on some new code in Mozilla itself, and I am about to begin the
process of submitting it to Mozilla to be included in CVS.  Until then
you'll have to compile your own mozilla from scratch (with my patch) in
order to use the plugin.

Once these issues are ironed out, Ter'Angreal will have it's own 3D web
browser :-)

[   Peter Amstutz   ][ address@hidden ][ address@hidden  ]
[Lead Programmer][Interreality Project][Virtual Reality for the Internet]
[ VOS: Next Generation Internet Communication][ http://interreality.org ]
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