First application prototype tutorial online. A very simple car configurator, which shows how to change the color or texture of a 3d model with simple HTML/JavaScript setAttribute calls. More examples will come very soon.

First tutorial which shows how to get your data converted to X3Dom is online. More will come the next days.

The instantReality transcoder is an online tool to recode your X3D data. It can read classic (VRML style) and XML and can produce classic (VRML), X3D and now HTML and XHTML with embedded X3DOM code.

We finally managed to add a generic handler, which works in all browsers, to monitor appends and removes of DOM nodes. This allows you to add/remove nodes via simple DOM commands. Example is online

Following the discussion on the WebKit forum it looks unlikely that the DOMAttrModified bug will be fixed soon. We implemented therefore a really ugly workaround (overwriting the setAttribute() method). Hopefully the WebKit peoply will come up with some better DOM-Mutation monitoring method soon.

However, thanks to this bugfix, the Dom Manipulator Example work now in WebKit and Chrome.

We now support HTML and XHTML explicitly. There are two basic examples now: HTML without xml-namespace and lower-case and XHTML with xml-namespace and case sensitive node-names/elements.

x3dom works with the latest Google Chrome dev-channel version. Same WebKit Dom Level 2 bug but it’s really fast.

On the way to better HTML5 integration: We added support and example for mixed Uppercase, lowercase and CamelCase elements. You can even use different encodings for the same node-types. Support for mixed-case attributes is coming soon.

The presentation at TPAC was very successful. Even Sam Ruby used the system to run own 3D-content in his blog.

We have now a clean vision and workplan for the further integration of 3D and HTML5.

The very latest WebKit build (r50383) breaks the WebGL-Interface. Even some of the WebKit-blog-demos do not work anymore. Please stay with r50377 and don’t update. We work on this issue.

The X3DOM system will be used to demo some of the results and state of discussion in the Web3D-HTML5 Workinggroup next week at TPAC  (W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week).

Don Brutzman, John A. Stewart and Joe D. Williams will present the current progress of the working-group and will use X3DOM to showcase the new DOM based integration model during the HTML WG F2F meeting, Fri Nov 6, 9am-10am.

We just discovered that WebKit does not support DOMAttrModified-Events which are part of the DOM Level 2 Event Model. We utilizes those events to monitor changes in DOM-elements and therefore attribute updates (like in the jQuery example) do not work in Safari and Google Chrome right now. It is even a known bug in the WebKit-bug tracker since 2006-04-04.

We are really shocked since our synchronize architecture depends on DOM Level 2 events and they work perfectly in Firefox and Opera for years.

The only workarounds we can think of right now would be really nasty and slow.

Just got the domain, server and the initial content up and running.