Smooth integration of 3D Applets in a Website

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#1

here is my company website WIP

http://superdev.fr/site/

I tried to integrate Applets in it in a smooth way, they should auto-size them selves and start pretty quick (except on some older JVM… and wont with MS JVM due to a compilation mistake…) seems that they works pretty well on all computers I have tested even very old one, if user dont have java they are replaced by an images.

website is in french but to make the story short just click in the left-bottom menu, they are four Applets : two little demo games / one virtual tour & one 3d logo

any feedbacks apreciated

EDIT :
I plan to add a button in the corner of each Applet when mouse goes over to enable fullscreen as this one http://demo.dzzd.net/HelloWorld/

#2

Pretty good - comparable to equivalent flash apps.
Games are shown a bit small though - looks to be about 200x200 pix on my 1280x1024 screen.

#3

thanks for this fast feedback :slight_smile:

you’re absolutly right I found them too small to now , I will make the car game a little bigger.

but hard to decide how much they should be (to not eat all cpu and/or run anywhere) the are not really intended to be played they are just theire as samples pieces , but I think that with the zoom/fullscreen button it will make this little size more acceptable , the user will zoom/fullscreen if wanted.

#4

following your advice I finally increased a little the size of those two :

http://superdev.fr/site/technologies.html
http://superdev.fr/site/3d.html

the two others can be zoomed with the right mouse button

#5

not had a good experience with that fullscreen applet on firefox/linux, you get the fullscreen window, which starts up behind the browser, then refuses to close even though the tab and the browser were closed, I had to manually kill the jvm to make it go away.

The superdev site is really nice though, it all runs smooth and nicely.

#6

ouch you worry me… you should have been able to switch it back after giving the window the focus and press "ESC" or “F5” or by closing the browser :-\

[quote]The superdev site is really nice though, it all runs smooth and nicely.
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cool, thanks !

EDIT:

just tried it again, ESC key is not implemented but “F5” should works (so F5 is the only way exept closing the browser to go back from full screen window)