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a-priori on March 6, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

VRML was declarative. It was like HTML for describing 3D scenes instead of documents.

Web3D (WebGL, specifically) is imperative. It lest a program render 3D scenes by telling the system where to put the triangles on each frame.

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