- From: Philip Parker <pparker@computing.dundee.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:01:39 +0000
As an upcoming potential web developer, soon to graduate from university - what use is there in me investing more effort into learning a specification which can be altered to suit corporate purposes and not engineering ones? Surely the point of a specification is to be as good and complete as it can be? The removal of ogg as a baseline for audio/video implementation strikes me as ridiculous. Theres nothing stopping other formats from being used after all - simply to have a completely open one as a fallback position is a sensible step forward. As things stand with how easily large corporations can obstruct/corrupt the process for their own goals, I might as well just stick to xhtml1 and avoid rich media elements where possible in any site I may end up developing until - and indeed if sense prevails.
Received on Saturday, 29 December 2007 11:01:39 UTC