development revision 354 from SF SVN

Matches last SVN revision from SourceForge
Added README.md (feature list is still too big)
- fixed some MinGW compilation errors
Used forward declarations to fix clang and gcc 4.7 stricter template function reference checking
Whitespace
- ignore binaries
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master'
- merged removement of OpenGL related functions from utility library and
  new animation parameter getter methods from develop branch
Check for strncpy_s
check _MSC_VER for vs solustion files
Merge pull request #21 from cloudwu/master

check for strncpy_s
- fixed 16 bit indices decision (thanks to attila)
fix memory leak on failures while loading geometry
Merge pull request #26 from severtsev/master

fix memory leak on failures while loading geometry
- fixed memory leak (thanks to bagobor)
- merge ignore list from develop branch
- updated ignore list for Mac OS binaries
Removed all VS C++ projects and solutions.
Ignore VS project and solution files.
Fix #34.