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VRML ( Virtual Reality Modeling Language ) is something i've actually just started to be taught by my CAD teacher at school. It's basically a mark-up language which then generates a 3-D world which you can navigate (go backward, forward, turn ect). I dunno quite if it comes under web design but apparantly you can run it on the internet if the appropriate libraries are installed and then it can hyperlink to varioius things. So it could be a cool thing to know how to do, just thought i'ld share
i think it's installed similar to how PHP and such things are installed, hmm dunno. but it's quite cool, my teacher made like the whole of our school (inside and out) with like all teh students walking round and crap
I tried to check out VRML when I first heard about it around a year ago. What I learned then is summarised by this except from Wikipedia:
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VRML reached the height of its popularity ... in 1997, when it was used on some personal homepages and sites such as "CyberTown"... [The main company that developed it was taken over by another in 1998, and the new corporate owner decided not to continue supporting it.] To fill the void a variety of proprietary Web 3D formats emerged over the next few years, including Microsoft Chrome and Adobe Atmosphere, neither of which is supported today. VRML's capabilities remained largely the same while realtime 3D graphics kept improving.
While VRML is still occasionally used, particularly in education and research where an open specification is most valued, it has now been superseded by X3D.
i guess that answers your question Sam i'm still gonna learn it anyway, another language to put under my belt and shove down as a skill on my CV along with (yeah i feel like showing off):
HTML
XHTML (yeah its the same as HTML)
Javascript
DHTML (pretty much the same as JS)
AJAX & Former AJAX Methoding
CSS
PHP
I guess that VRML is a good base from whcih to start learning other, more complex (?) languages. I didn't think it was used alot.
ColfFusion powers or powered MySpace, and the Adobe site, and its quite interesting. Another thing is the new Adobe Flex framework wich is looking good, and all the new AJAX frameworks.
We at iVirtua use The "prototype" and "backbase" AJAX engines.
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XHTML (yeah its the same as HTML)
Lol yea, just close the tags XD I declared that iVirtua was XHTML because the w3c validator seems to think it validates better as XHTML (less errors), and it is really superseding HTML 4.01.
CSS has also got to be one of the easiest there ASP is pretty good in that on Windows it works well and is very efficient in running things like COmmunity Server (www.communityserver.org) and can handle those big corporate sites, indeed like Microsoft's own.
its not just about closing the tags - xhtml i'm talking about - you have to make sure all attributes are assigned a value, like checked=checked
my teacher said that i could integrate vrml and prodesktop (which is the cad software i use) together which'ld be cool. because i could make objects in prodesktop and "animate" them in vrml.
PTC ProDesktop pwns! I remember using that I also know some Gmax which used to be free, and used the SC4 BAT.
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its not just about closing the tags - xhtml i'm talking about - you have to make sure all attributes are assigned a value, like checked=checked Razz
Dont take me too literally lol , it is also alot more compliant, and the next generation (if you can call it that) of HTML. Slowly I think it will become standard.
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