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So just do it with VRML5 like HTML5.

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No reason the above can't be done. But many people will come up with lame excuses about why we shouldn't have nice things.

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i can't say why webgl took over, as well as threejs, but i like how close to the metal they are. i would also much rather have a lower level representation underneath instead of starting outright with a markup language. i think that's why vrml eventually faded. i generally don't see why 3d should be represented in html.

as for react, it merely expresses threejs, and adds something which three doesn't have: self contained components that are now sharable. something like this: https://twitter.com/0xca0a/status/1394697847556149250 just didn't exist in the web previously.

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