- From: Jesús Ruiz García <jesusruiz2007@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:13:01 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
Ok, thanks Tab Atkins. I fully understand the reasons for not adding tours to HTML5. I'll try to WebGL to see the power to create this type of functionality. Thanks, I feel that this proposal has not been helpful. 2012/6/25 Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Jesús Ruiz García > <jesusruiz2007@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello again to all the group whatwg. > > > > I have a second proposal, which like the first, I do not know if it can > be > > useful for inclusion in HTML5. > > > > This time, I want to speak to you of the virtual tours, used by museums, > > clinics, libraries, hotels and a long list of websites. > > > > So far, all the more powerful virtual tours I've seen, are made in Flash. > > Usually, these tours are created with the following applications: > > *Easypano Virtual Tour Software*, *3DVista*, *Flashificator*, *Autopano > Tour > > * and some others. > > > > An example of Easypano virtual tour: > > http://www.vitaldent.com/nuestras_clinicas.jsp > > > > Other examples using 3DVista: > > http://www.3dvista.com/virtual-tours-samples.htm > > > > I've been reviewing whether some library is being developed to support > the > > creation of these applications on HTML5. I found a project called > > Pannellum, which uses WebGL: > > http://www.mpetroff.net/archives/2012/05/28/introducing-pannellum/ > > For now though it works properly on Chrome, but isn't powerful or > > beautiful, as are the tours developed with Flash applications. > > > > My proposal is to give more support to this type of works. We could > create > > a new tag called "tour" or something similar. If video and audio have own > > tag, also a tour could be differentiated from the other elements of the > > website. > > This seems to be doable in WebGL just fine. If current WebGL-based > tour things aren't as pretty as the Flash ones, that's just a matter > of the current stuff not being worked on as much - there's nothing > inherent about WebGL that would make it uglier than the Flash version. > > This is not a very useful thing to add to HTML itself. "Tours" like > this are not common, and they would be very difficult to describe in > markup. They are best suited for a specialized JS library. > > ~TJ >
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