{"id":76,"date":"2009-09-22T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/vivaty-defects-to-flash-for-vivaty-scenes-lite\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T08:25:00","slug":"vivaty_defects_to_flash_for_vivaty_scenes_lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/vivaty_defects_to_flash_for_vivaty_scenes_lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivaty defects to Flash for Vivaty Scenes Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<p>This is a very sad day for open standards on the 3D web.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m devastated to hear that the X3D poster child that is Vivaty has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vivaty.com\/2009\/09\/22\/vivaty-lite-in-flash\">stooped to shoe-horning a feature-limited version of its service into a proprietary 2D graphics plugin<\/a> as a misguided attempt at achieving cross-platform support.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#39;m a Mac (and Linux) user who would like to be able to use Vivaty, no I don&#39;t want to use a stripped down version hacked into Flash.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what great things could have been achieved if the engineering effort put into hacking together a 3D application in a 2D graphics engine had instead been ploughed into supporting and improving Unix\/Linux-based implementations of X3D, the ISO standard for 3D graphics on the web. The <a href=\"http:\/\/web3d.org\/\">Web3D<\/a> community would benefit considerably from Vivaty&#39;s contribution to standardising and promoting the innovations they have made with the Vivaty Player, AJAX3D being one example.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m not angry at Vivaty&#39;s misguided efforts which were no doubt driven by business decisions, I am instead disappointed that they felt that the open standards route was not a viable cross-platform option for a company which has previously championed the standards movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very sad day for open standards on the 3D web. I&#39;m devastated to hear that the X3D poster child that is Vivaty has stooped to shoe-horning a feature-limited version of its service into a proprietary 2D graphics plugin as a misguided attempt at achieving cross-platform support. Yes, I&#39;m a Mac (and Linux) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/vivaty_defects_to_flash_for_vivaty_scenes_lite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vivaty defects to Flash for Vivaty Scenes Lite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}