Re: Incubating the <model> element

Just as a followup, there is already a repo set up for <model> that I wasn’t aware of. 😅

https://github.com/immersive-web/model-element

Please file any followup issues there so we can keep the discussion in one place 🙏

Thanks in advance! 

> On 21 Jul 2022, at 12:55 pm, Marcos Caceres <marcosc@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Immersive Web CG participants, 
> 
> Apple/WebKit has proposed The `<model>` Element Explainer to the Immersive Web CG:
> 
> https://github.com/immersive-web/proposals/issues/76
> 
> We invite you to provide feedback in the GitHub issue above. 
> 
> We hope the explainer can serve as a basis for incubating a declarative means to embed 3D content in a HTML document - along with any companion APIs we may need. 
> 
> As stated in the explainer, we believe it is time for files representing 3D geometric data to become a first class citizen on the web. As such, we’d like to collaborate with this community, along with the wider web community, to come up with a set of specifications/technologies that achieve this goal - and we hope the explainer serves as a good starting point and proof-of-concept.
> 
> As such, we are wanting to move our explainer, along with the associated issues [1], over to this CG's shared space on GitHub to continue development into a specification. I'd also like to volunteer to help edit any such specifications. Once there is consensus and implementer buy-in, we'd like to formally standardize the resulting specification(s) at the appropriate venues (i.e., the W3C’s Immersive Web WG, WHATWG for any HTML/DOM parts, etc.). 
> 
> If you’d like to try out `<model>` described in [1], Safari has an experimental implementation behind a preference. To enable it:
> 
>  1. In Safari on macOs, open Preferences... > and to to the Advanced options.
>  2. Check the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” option.
>  3. Under the Develop menu > Experimental features, enable “HTML <model> element”
>  4. Go to https://marcoscaceres.github.io/webkit-explainers/model/example.html
> 
> Looking forward to collaborating!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Marcos Cáceres
> 
> [1] https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Amodel
>

Received on Thursday, 21 July 2022 05:11:22 UTC