Last modified: 2011-06-30 06:45:18 UTC
As of 2011-Jun-30, there exists in all major browsers either native support or 3rd-party plugins to display 3D content in WebGL format which is an ISO standard. To include rudimentary but sufficient functionality, and to open no security holes, for encyclopedic presentation purposes it suffices to define a HTML header and footer framing an actual filename in the x3d format, and to define a restricted subset of the WebGL language that will be understood. Then please allow the X3D file format on Commons. The HTML frame ensures the 3d object can be rotated with a mouse. A Commons file format ensures media is created and collected. Background: I am a maintainer of bio-/chemical content in the German language Wikipedia, and molecules cannot be understood if you cannot grab and rotate them. Surely, this is not the only application for 3D presentation. Thanks for your time.
WebGL isn't a format or a language at all -- it's a low-level 3d graphics drawing API. What you're thinking of sounds along the lines of bug 1790 -- allowing uploads of some particular 3d model file format and offering some kind of embedded viewer.
(In reply to comment #1) > What you're thinking of sounds along the lines of bug 1790 -- allowing uploads > of some particular 3d model file format and offering some kind of embedded > viewer. Agree this is a duplicate of 1790. I will comment there. Funny how the search for "X3D" didn't find that bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1790 ***
