Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-29 Thread Jason Cartwright
http://code.google.com/oss.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html Not all of it, of course. J On 27/10/2007, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:27 +0100 25/10/07, Frank Wales wrote: How about Google? It's not directly open-source, but it's built on top of

RE: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread Simon Cobb
Hello, sorry for late reply, I've been on holiday. I agree that the splash page is annoying - my 3 year old can't get past it as she can't read it and doesn't know what it's for. But I guess she is young to surf alone. Anyway, back to the point, deep linking is possible right now with a bit

Re: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread Jason Cartwright
Sound? J On 29/10/2007, Simon Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, sorry for late reply, I've been on holiday. I agree that the splash page is annoying - my 3 year old can't get past it as she can't read it and doesn't know what it's for. But I guess she is young to surf alone. Anyway,

Re: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread ~:'' ありがとうございました 。
Simon, have you seen this rotating, movable video in svg demo? http:// www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/08/svg-video-demo.html regards Jonathan Chetwynd Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet On 29 Oct 2007, at 09:23, Simon Cobb wrote: Hello, sorry for late reply, I've

RE: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread Simon Cobb
JC you're right, yes to sound. (*^_^*) blushes that was an oversight, 'video' should've read 'multimedia' in the original email I did have 'file upload' too until I googled 'ajax file upload' S. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread Adam
Jonathan, Looks good however it is pretty pointless for the next year or so until SVG and video tag support is available in any of the browser releases. I'm extremely impressed with Flash video, It is simple to convert the videos using Flash 8 encoder and the files are pretty small. Can

Re: [backstage] An interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium

2007-10-29 Thread Frank Wales
Gordon Joly wrote: How about Google? It's not directly open-source, but it's built on top of Linux, which is. I can't see Google releasing their source code, or their search algorithms... My point was that Linux is widely used as an enabling technology in things that are ostensibly more

RE: [backstage] flash accessibility

2007-10-29 Thread Simon Cobb
Hello Jonathan, Adam's beaten me to it with his email below. I think it looks good too but since it's a while til it's technically viable and even once it is, it then has to gain traction with designers I feel we'll be using flash as the de facto standard for video for a long while yet. Adam,

[backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

2007-10-29 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi All, from the latest podcast just uploaded... The iPlayer, no don't do a runner, seriously, it's taken over the mailing list, dominated our discussions and is something that many members of the backstage community care an awful lot about. So do we. We all know the questions. Why don't we

RE: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

2007-10-29 Thread Ian Forrester
I forgot the link - silly me http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/10/iplayer_drm_and.html Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

2007-10-29 Thread David McBride
Hi, A very interesting interview - many thanks to Backstage and Ashley. A few thoughts: * It seems clear that all of the portability issues currently affecting the iPlayer beta are a direct result of the requirement for DRM specified at the design stage. If the DRM constraint _were_ relaxed,

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

2007-10-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29/10/2007, David McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * From the interview, it is clear that the reason that the current DRM requirements exist is because rights-holders did not want the end-user the to be able to redistribute content to others Asking people to agree not share with friends

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

2007-10-29 Thread Tom Loosemore
* One question I have is: why Kontiki? Given that the files being distributed are DRM-wrapped anyway, why not use something more mainstream such as Bittorrent? Cos at the design stage the very word 'Bittorrent' was capable of sending rights holders running for the hills, regardless of

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

2007-10-29 Thread David McBride
Tom Loosemore wrote: First, the BBC are _already_ broadcasting all of their content, digitally and in the clear, in the form of RealPlayer streams, terrestrial radio and (HD) television broadcasts and also via internet multicast. all above are geographically bounded. So is access to the

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield on iPlayer - 26min Interview

2007-10-29 Thread Michael Sparks
On Monday 29 October 2007 18:47, Dave Crossland wrote: ... Asking people to agree not share with friends and betray their community is evil :-( No, it's not. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit