- From: Luca Passani <passani@eunet.no>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:36:10 +0100
- To: MWI BPWG Public <public-bpwg@w3.org>
say whatever you want. I am just observing that, for one reason or the other, the decisions of the WG consistently go in the favor of transcoder vendors. Be it: - highfalutin disquisitions over the nature of HTTP, - counter examples brought about by broken mobile sites, - previous practices established by transcoder vendors themselves 3 months earlier, - fanciful hypothesis about what a mobile developer may want (please don't transcode my site, but transcode my pictures!), the result does not change: decisions consistently go the transcoder way. who do you think you are fooling? Luca Tom Hume wrote: > > You sure about that, Luca? > > The proposal was put up by Jo, and it was Eduardo and myself who > argued against it, setting out the points below - not transcoder > vendors. I can't speak for Eduardo, but I was wearing my tin-foil hat > throughout the call to avoid any interference the transcoding industry > might exert on my thinking. > > Tom > > On 14 Jan 2009, at 14:49, Luca Passani wrote: > >> >> >> yet another decision from W3C which goes in the direction of helping >> transcoder vendors transcode more, and against the interest of >> content owners who want to protect their content from transcoders. >> Congratulations. >> >> Luca >> >> Tom Hume wrote: >>> >>> Luca >>> >>> Look from the section "Included resources of a non transformed >>> resource should not be transformed" downwards in the minutes. >>> >>> In short order we came up with a number of reasons why this wasn't >>> as attractive an idea as it originally seemed, and voted against it: >>> >>> - resources may not be referenced from markup at all >>> - this would shift HTTP from a request/response model to a >>> document/sub-documents model >>> - dependencies on sub-documents may be recursive >>> - content providers may wish to have documents transformed, but >>> images not transformed >>> >>> Tom >> >> >> > > -- > Future Platforms Ltd > e: Tom.Hume@futureplatforms.com > t: +44 (0) 1273 819038 > m: +44 (0) 7971 781422 > company: www.futureplatforms.com > personal: tomhume.org > > > > >
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