- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:33:27 +0100
I of course meant: "royalty-free"!! S. On Dec 30, 2007 5:41 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote: > The spec is not finalised and the a/v baseline codec question is one > of the open questions. > > As exerience from the W3C video workshop shows, all involved parties > want to find a solution for a baseline codec that can actually be > mandated. I am confident that the new year will see us solve this > problem with a royalty-fee codec that is acceptable to everybody, > however, it will take time and a lot of discussions. Flamewars won't > help (not that this thread is one, but we have had a few threads that > were pretty close to a flamewar). > > I am expecting progress from technical and legal discussions, possibly > in small expert groups. This is a hard problem, but people are working > on it. > > Best Regards, > Silvia. > > > > On Dec 29, 2007 8:19 PM, Henry Mason <hmason at mac.com> wrote: > > > > On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Philip Parker wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > If the specification included the Ogg baseline and few web browsers > > actually supported it, what use would the specification be? Simply > > specifying it won't actually make it widely implemented. > > > > There's also nothing stopping you from using Ogg in the things you > > develop right now, so how does the removal change what you choose to do? > > > > > 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. > > > > I guess by "rich media elements" you also mean JPEG, GIF, PNG, SVG, > > and Flash? None of those are included as baselines in the XHTML1 > > specification either. > > > > -Henry > > > > >
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