Here is an elegant solution. Use a VRML detector to find out if your visitor has a VRML browser. Depending on that, show either the embedded VRML file or, let's say an animated GIF image. Check out Robert Lipman's VRML browser detector and Alan Taylor's VRML browser sniffer . Free programs and commercial products are available for GZIP compression.
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