- From: Manuel Amador <rudd-o@rudd-o.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:10:27 -0500
> That's not unreasonable, but you have yet to give a solid technical > reason for reverting to the old text, Reasons to put the Ogg tech suite back on the spec: - it's Free (who here hates beer or freedom?) - it's patent-unencumbered (this is a FACT) - it's technically very good (Theora) or even superb (Vorbis and FLAC) - it's widely available and readily installable - it's being integrated in popular Web browsers RIGHT NOW - it enables little guys to produce content at minimal cost COME ON, what other reasons do you need? > so far your only argument is that ogg should be kept because it is > FOSS, which on its own is insufficient. I just gave you N more reasons. > As far as wording goes using the word "SHOULD support" is far too > weak for HTML5, as SHOULD is relatively > meaningless, a much better requirement is that the wording be "MUST > support ..."; this is a sensible as > having a spec that says "SHOULD support ogg/vorbis and ogg/theora" is > fairly useless -- all that will happen > is that browser vendors (Apple, Mozilla, Opera, etc) will once again > be in a position where the spec's wording > means nothing and we end up with yet another standard which is not > tied to whatever becomes the actual > de facto standard, as implemented by the majority browser. This is > much worse for site compatibility for every > other browser as it then becomes necessary to determine what the de > facto standard actually *is*. This is not the year 2000. Mozilla and Opera are embedding Theora video. That's a user base large enough to force the rest of the players to get with the program. Solid technical, philosophical and practical reasons to move Ogg to MUST. -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rudd-o at rudd-o.com> Rudd-O.com - http://rudd-o.com/ GPG key ID 0xC8D28B92 at http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20071211/21e69616/attachment.pgp>
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