Re: [Buzzkill] Cleaning Up Web Audio API Spec

Agreed.

I'm not sure of the provenance of the images in the spatialization section,
either.


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Paul Adenot <padenot@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 07/10/2013 17:06, Doug Schepers wrote:
> > Hi, folks–
> >
> > TL;DR: We're publishing the heartbeat draft of the Web Audio API spec as
> > it is this time, but for next publication, we'd like to clean out some
> > of the inappropriate images and references.
> >
> > Long version:
> > In preparing the Web Audio API spec for publication, I noticed some
> > oddities that had escaped my attention before. I wasn't in charge of
> > handling publications before, so please forgive me that this comes a bit
> > late.
> >
> > There are several images and link references to specific products (e.g.
> > section 16 Example Applications). This is a problem, since I'm not
> > certain that we've obtained the rights to use those images or brands,
> > and it could seem like an endorsement, which isn't appropriate for a
> > vendor-neutral spec.
>
> Agreed. I can do the editing once we agree on what to modify for the
> next publication.
>
> I'm thinking of removing product names (GarageBand is cited, for
> example), company names (EA is cited), and screenshots, basically
> cleaning up the section 16, "Example Applications" [0]. In addition,
> maybe we could remove the references to other software in section 11,
> Spatialization and Panning [1].
>
> I also feel that the changelog is not really useful (especially now that
> we have the full history on GitHub), but this is somewhat a less
> concerning issue.
>
> Anything to add to/remove from this list of stuff to remove?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul.
>
> [0]: http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#ExampleApplications
> [1]: http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#Spatialization-section
>
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