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Given the state of text tools do you think it would it be viable to pipe a Readability Redux scrape into Aframe?
by hammerandtongs 9y ago
Given the state of text tools do you think it would it be viable to pipe a Readability Redux scrape into Aframe?
- ngokevin 9y agoYeah, I think so? Like parse the HTML and present it in a nice way in VR? That might be interesting for us to show VR content stand-in for non-VR sites (like Wikipedia) from our browser.
- dmarcos 9y agoIt should be totally possible. You should be able to fetch the HTML, process it (as Reliability seems to do) and define your own render logic in an A-Frame component.
- hammerandtongs 9y agoI couldn't find a reference for Reliability? Is there source? -I don't know how the FF reader mode is coded- Edit-- https://github.com/mozilla/readability https://github.com/mozilla/readability
- dmarcos 9y agoYou answered your own question. I'm more excited about your approach of alternative ways to render existing Web content over a DOM to texture API. VR is an exciting space to experiment.
- hammerandtongs 9y agoI understand that viewpoint but I think the WebVR will be isolating(the normal web doesn't work) and lack uptake until, for example, github.com can be used directly within VR. I don't believe github themselves will make a native client any time soon, and we shouldn't expect any other websites either. Thus HTMLTexture seems critical.
- dmarcos 9y agoI totally agree. We will be pursuing both approaches. HTMLTexture requires consensus and coordination with other browser vendors to come up with a sensible standard and it will take a bit of time. Alternative ways to render page information using WebGL can be explored today.