John Richardson wrote:
> VRML 97 is an ISO standard so it is open source.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer. ISO != Open Source. In fact, most ISO standards are
incredibly closed due to patent limitations (look at the MPEG spec for a
classic example). Sure anyone can purchase a copy of an ISO spec, but
you have to pay for the page count, which can be incredibly expensive
(at last look the MPEG 4 v2 spec was just over 5000 pages).
> It is extensible which
> means it can be incredibly complex and annoying due to browser
> implementations of Java.
Due to problems with the VRML Spec that have never really been sorted
out.
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