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Is there current development for Firefox to support x3d?

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glennalperin
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Firefox has made a deliberate decision to be a browser which is standards compliant. In testing, I have noticed that the current release version of Firefox supports SVG, but it appears not to support X3D or VRML. X3D, as I am sure you know, is both a superset of, and successor to, VRML. Since Firefox is moving to a platform which is in general intended to no longer support plugins, it seems to me that, at the very least, these technologies, even legacy technologies like VRML, should be a part of the overall development process. Is there any current effort to make this happen?

Firefox has made a deliberate decision to be a browser which is standards compliant. In testing, I have noticed that the current release version of Firefox supports SVG, but it appears not to support X3D or VRML. X3D, as I am sure you know, is both a superset of, and successor to, VRML. Since Firefox is moving to a platform which is in general intended to no longer support plugins, it seems to me that, at the very least, these technologies, even legacy technologies like VRML, should be a part of the overall development process. Is there any current effort to make this happen?

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Shadow110
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This is support for Firefox by Volunteers. So no idea, can not find any info. This explains 1 ; https://www.roadtovr.com/firefox-gets-vr-api-browser-based-virtual-reality-early-developer-examples-emerge/

May find info here : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/firefox+or+firefox-os+or+html5-apps or https://discourse.mozilla.org/

Note : Firefox 57 Quantum release date Nov 14th https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/quantum/ Note : Legacy Extensions will be disabled and or removed.

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