- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:11:18 +0900
At 19:04 -0500 11/12/07, Jeff McAdams wrote: >Dave Singer wrote: >> At 13:45 -0500 11/12/07, Fernando wrote: >>> Please reconsider the decision to exclude the recommendation of the >> Theora/OGG Vorbis codec in HTML 5 guidelines. > >> This entire discussion is founded on a major misapprehension: that >> there has been a decision, and that decision was to exclude. This is >> simply not true; there is no decision either to include or exclude. >> There is a recognition that work is needed. > >> I and others have spent a great deal of time on this problem already, >> working with a number of people, including the W3C staff. Many of us -- >> maybe all of us -- agree we need to find a solution that enables broad >> interoperability and is in accord with w3c and web practices. We have >> not yet reached consensus on having found it. That's all. > >A decision was made to move away from using the ogg family of >technologies. No. A decision was made to have the text reflect the facts that (a) no-one is happy with a 'should' and (b) that work is ongoing to find a solution (which might be Ogg, or something else). That's all. >While not a final decision, it is a threatening decision >to those of us that value freedom and openness and don't appreciate >being screwed by big companies. > >Listen to what the people are saying. Oh, I am listening. It's by no means clear that the Ogg crowd is at all. I'm also spending efforts working on finding a solution. I don't count lamenting "I want my ogg" on this list as spending efforts at all. -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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