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[eric79]

• Fix demo server once for all ( Issue VWF document at virtual.wf #176 )
• Fix issue with website freezing in Firefox on Macs
• Fix Windows installer so it does not overwrite user's PATH variable and repost it to website (Issue Windows install overwrites system PATH #155)
• Investigate 503 errors when downloading the Mac build
• Documentation
  • Revamp documentation to make sure people don't get lost
    • Demo page: Add link to browser requirements up top and update link to browser requirements in error text)
    • Tutorial: Move pong app to the top of it
    • Rewrite Tutorial section to make it more obvious to developer to download .dae files (see Issue Need Help Installing VWF #310 )
    • Reorganize
    • Go through the whole site looking for broken links
    • Add a bit about the four things necessary to maintain synchronization
      • Stuff that you want to synchronize must be stored on the model side in a node property
      • There must not be any stateful variables in your model components that are not properties
      • Do not use calledMethod or firedEvent in the view except for things that are ephemeral (happen and then are gone) – nothing stateful
      • New for event handler replication: Do not have any local variables or functions in your model components – closures will not be preserved
    • Add a "pitfall" about having properties that are arrays or Objects w/ nodes in them
    • Add a “pitfall” that warns of putting private functions in behaviors
    • Test in all sorts of browsers with all sorts of widths
    • Can csr generation be completed in one step like this? openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -sha256 -out server.csr -keyout server.key
  • Remove examples that we no longer want
  • Fix up remaining examples: refactor and comment so they make for good examples
  • Add a recipe for each one, including one for adding sound and video with jPlayer driver (clean up jPlayer driver in the process)
• Respond to website feedback that we've already gotten
  • Change title tagline on page to better tell VWF story
  • Eliminate load timeout errors on demo server
  • Respond to Metaverse's comments via email and on the forum
  • Do a better job of explaining: What is VWF?
  • Put something in the default app that is created, so people know it's working
  • Change background of duck app to white
  • Adjust lighting to make it more beautiful (try to find three.js plugin for three light setup – or standard lighting setup in 3DS Max)
  • Make left-click and drag spin the duck
• Add a news blog to VWF site, where we can post about upcoming features, releases, and breaking changes
• Point people at Stack Overflow and gitHub issues (maybe in footer) - and enact process by which we check these regularly
• Make browser incompatibility message be more specific (again) about what failed
• Remove section about initializeCamera from Getting Started
  • Complete PR Branch/remove initialize camera #95: fix example/multiuser (second user's screen is black - first bad commit 543d52) - Step through code to see which part of new code it's getting tripped up in (probably has something to do w/ taking control of the navObject)
  • Edit Getting Started to reflect the change
• Decrease load time on public server
  • Start loading apps before document.ready
  • Move to node server
  • Profile to see the biggest issue (mars-game would be a good example)
  • Decrease download time
    • Investigate glTF as an alternative to collada
    • Compress 3D model files for transport
      • Minify
      • Gzip?
• Improve demo page experience (change layout to something more like kineticjs or chrome experiements)
  • Patch kimray valve with XPC animation fixes so we can patch the version on demo server
  • Add text that explains what user can do
  • Fix “join current session” functionality
  • Fix Mars Game multiuser experience
  • Fix and post LCS app
    • Once VCTE is posted, remove command-center from VWF repo
    • Do interactive rebase on latest three.js version and drop our commit that changed “uv” to “uvMap”
    • Release VWF to Master
    • Copy LCS app to demo server
  • Add XPC
  • Fix and add Cesium-webrtc 3192 and 3107
  • Make bzflag really shine
    • Make it not die at 15 people
      • Rendering? (what happens when you have 15 tanks?)
      • Network traffic? (reduce key and mouse events – remove mouse events that aren’t necessary)
    • Componentize navigation so users can create their own that still reduces latency - have bzflag use that kind of navigation
    • Focus on game mechanics (take out bzflag stuff and just have tanks shoot each other) - maybe update outdated code at the same time
    • Add shaders / improved art to make it look amazing
  • Add something 2D
  • Have demo.virtual.wf serve up (once again) the unsupported.html in IE 8 - (right now, the loading screen just sits forever)
  • Have app tell Eric's phone that it won’t run on it
  • Add link to VWF video (especially for unsupported browsers)
• Have downloads page be a matrix of current and past installers
• Show webpage to people and get feedback
• Remove flash from VWF website to avoid sending the wrong signal (and since it doesn't work on mobile devices)
• Process pull requests
• Process Issues and other things we've heard from users like:
  • Experience of loading a new scenario and knowing when everything has been loaded could be better (start with an onSceneReady function)
  • Loading spinner doesn't always make sense
  • In Multiuser cookbook, mention the makeOwnAvatarVisible flag
• Reach out to all the people who have posted pull requests or issues and see what their experience has been
• Plan a conference experience
• Advertise!
• Stress test the system and document how well it can scale and document
• Update wikipedia page to be a little more human-readable - decide what we want to say and say it
• Launch the website (see to-do list)
• Improve graphical performance (complete branch/view-interpolation)
• Fix bugs and move integration to master and give us these wonderful features: websocket network check, no scroll bars, view interpolation, Current Sessions, no need for initializeCamera
  • Fix view interpolation bug (PR Branch/fix mirrored animations #149)
  • Humvee and radio lessons don't load - Issue 3189 and 3190
  • Duck does not load 3193
  • Put up warning about occasional load timeouts on command-center - Issue 3188
  • Merge readme pull request
  • Investigate slowness of apps in Firefox
• Add a comment in the default app created by vwf create that points the user to the Getting Started guide (PR Update link to point to new getting started guide. #137)
• Remove unnecessary libraries from framework (bootstrap, etc) and update demos so they still work (include necessary libraries in the apps, themselves) (PR Branch/remove library dependencies #133)
• Add Google Analytics back to download page somehow

[jessmartin]

Can't track down any slowness in Firefox. Tried loading a few demos. Things run well for me.