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Subject: Re[5]: [cgmo-webcgm] Question about NVDC and APS attributes


Thursday, December 2, 2004, 10:55:33 AM, Lofton wrote:
LH> At 08:57 AM 12/2/2004 -0500, Benoit Bezaire wrote:
>>Hi Dieter,
>>
>>Ok so according to you, there's only one; either viewContext or
>>virtualViewContext.  That's fine with me.  I think it should be called
>>'viewContext' even if it is expressed in NVDC.  virtualViewContext is
>>confusing.

LH> I agree with you.  After all, we don't call that other thingy "virtualRegion".
Exactly.

>>Besides, we have that section in the spec which explains
>>that NVDC coords are used in the WebCGM DOM.
>>
>>I can wait a bit, but if nobody can justify having both of them, I
>>suggest that we drop one (virtualViewContext).

LH> I suggest that we (you and I, spec editors) drop it now for the pre-telecon
LH> new WebCGM 2.0 draft.  If someone can demonstrate in the telecon that we
LH> have erred, then we can add it back.

LH> Sound okay?
Fine with me.

-- 
 Benoit   mailto:benoit@itedo.com

 
LH> -Lofton.



>>Thursday, December 2, 2004, 8:17:15 AM, Dieter wrote:
>>
>>DW> well....
>>
>>DW> I think that we decided to allow for setting a view context using a
>>DW> setAttribute
>>DW> call. The view context should be specified in NVDC to match all other
>>DW> coordinates
>>DW> used in the DOM context. So the view context became a virtual view
>>context.
>>DW> I am not 100% sure, but that's my only recollection.
>>
>>DW> Dieter
>>
>>DW> -----Original Message-----
>>DW> From: Benoit Bezaire [mailto:benoit@itedo.com]
>>DW> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:20 PM
>>DW> To: CGM Open WebCGM TC
>>DW> Subject: Re[2]: [cgmo-webcgm] Question about NVDC and APS attributes
>>
>>
>>DW> Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 8:12:56 PM, Lofton wrote:
>>
>>LH>> At 04:04 PM 12/1/2004 -0500, Benoit Bezaire wrote:
>> >>>[...]
>> >>>Second, could someone explain to me what virtualViewContext means?
>>
>>LH>> Huh?  Where did this come from?  Is this something we invented in the
>>LH>> post-Houston, 11/16 telecon?
>>DW> I don't know where it came from; the only thing I remember is that you
>>DW> and Dieter understood its meaning.
>>
>>LH>> I wonder if this is the "target rectangle" concept from section 3.2 of
>>LH>> Dieter's object behaviors proposal, which we discussed in the telecon
>>DW> right
>>LH>> after Houston?
>>DW> maybe?
>>
>>DW> --
>>DW>  Benoit   mailto:benoit@itedo.com
>>
>>LH>>
>>DW> 
>>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/cgmo-webcgm/email/archives/2004
>>DW> 11/doc00001.doc
>>
>>LH>> If so, then I'm pretty sure it should *not* be an ApsAttr.  Therefore,
>>DW> it
>>LH>> shouldn't be in the DOM.  Is this what you would call a "shadow DOM"
>>LH>> entity?  I can see someone wanting to inquire it, possibly (but let's
>>DW> make
>>LH>> sure there is a strong use case, rather than adding more functions
>>LH>> gratuitously).  It should not, however, be settable.
>>
>>LH>> -Lofton.





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