Re: AR Web

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:06 PM James Baicoianu <james_w3c@baicoianu.com>
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> On 8/20/2018 4:18 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM James Baicoianu <james_w3c@baicoianu.com>
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>> Maybe after 5 years we'll convince everyone to agree on a common set of
>> functionality, and then another 5 years convincing browser makers to
>> implement it, before we can really say the work is done.  The important
>> thing is keeping the conversation alive and driving it ever forwards :)
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> I hope we can work faster than that :-)
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> Me too :D
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> As a start, what do people think about designing a pure JavaScript
> interface instead of defining new HTML tags?
> It's easy to define your own HTML tags with custom elements and it avoids
> changing the HTML spec and the browser's parser.
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> I agree that this sort of thing doesn't necessarily need to be tied to the
> DOM, yeah - there's a whole set of basic 3d math and geometry primitives
> which don't make sense as DOM elements, but if standardized, would make it
> easier to share objects and code between 3D libraries and engines (Vector3,
> Matrix4, Geometry, etc).
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> I'm less familiar with what would be involved in getting things like this
> added as underlying features of Javascript, but this may be outside the
> scope of this list, and would likely involve the ECMA TC39 group.
> https://github.com/tc39/proposals
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_tc39_proposals&d=DwMDaQ&c=0ia8zh_eZtQM1JEjWgVLZg&r=jahSgznxrAL5kPgsRvs7bhKUEd9M5X0d-NE2WJg7VT0&m=goWujeogCbAMe3LAP2Nlb3o4VUb8UqhOrni3Ka3TUts&s=1uudB2-CFN4U6DY3fS_Xd0DnjqBwGXFcKJlIlldzzFw&e=>
> could be a good place to continue this discussion, although I'm unfamiliar
> with their process for making suggestions.
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Adding a JavaScript API does not involve getting TC39 involved since it
doesn't change the language.
W3C creates API additions all the time. For instance: WebXR :-)

Maybe you're referring to additions for vector. There's already an API for
that: https://drafts.fxtf.org/geometry/