Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-08 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Chris DiBona writes: this issue is actually not about submarined patents (more like aircraft carrier patents) or tricky corner cases for the lgpl., but that the internet users prefer more quality in their codecs/megabyte/second. I'm not so sure. YouTube is very popular despite the fact

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-08 Thread Křištof Želechovski
It is impractical to convert video that was already compressed. My attempt to convert QuickTime to Theora inflated the file from 10 MB to 50 MB; this is unacceptable. Moreover, unpleasant visual artifacts appeared. I was told it must be like that; you can get satisfactory compression results

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-08 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Am Montag, den 08.06.2009, 12:47 +0200 schrieb Křištof Želechovski: I suspect Google cannot convert most of the video it already serves even if they wanted to. I suspect Google, with its enourmous storage capacity, has the original files of each and every video ever uploaded. But only Youtube

Re: [whatwg] the cite element

2009-06-08 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Regarding your example: cite class=bibliography-item Smith, John. iThe Triumph of HTML 5/i. 2015. New York: Faraway Press. /cite I think we can agree that one could use such a syntax outside of running text, as in appendices, footnotes and the like. There is no much harm

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-08 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
People are reluctant to learn new tools and new ways. Most of the time it is a sane protection from overwhelming abundance. It is not limited to programming languages, it can affect also video encoders. It even affects telephones (some people dislike telephones with keys). Bjarne Stroustrup on

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-08 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking out loud: One thing that was mentioned in an earlier post: Vorbis. I am also of the mind that Vorbis is of higher quality/mb/sec and statically than is mp3. The only real problem is that people don't pirate with it,

Re: [whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome

2009-06-08 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Silvia Pfeiffersilviapfeiff...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: .. I'm not even sure that writing it into the standard would make vendors actually support it, for the reasons above. If everyone had only the

Re: [whatwg] Codec mess with video and audio tags

2009-06-08 Thread Robert Sayre
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Ian Hicksoni...@hixie.ch wrote: Every codec has the same problem; Every codec has the same problem if you can't prove a negative. That turns out to be hard. -- Robert Sayre I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Re: [whatwg] Superset encodings [Re: ISO-8859-* and the C1 control range]

2009-06-08 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Øistein E. Andersen wrote: Shift_JIS Windows-31J [...] Shift-JIS Windows-932 Le 5 juin 09, Anne van Kesteren écrivit : Is the implication here that Shift_JIS and Shift-JIS are distinct [...]? No, Shift-JIS and Windows-932 are commonly used names/labels for the

Re: [whatwg] Vulgar fractions

2009-06-08 Thread Øistein E . Andersen
Le 3 juin 09 à 23:53, Ian Hickson a écrit : Since HTML5 supports MathML natively now, it seems that MathML is the solution to use [for vulgar fractions]. There does not seem to be any real support for vulgar fractions in MathML (neither as specified nor as currently implemented). I agree

Re: [whatwg] Helping people seaching for content filtered by license

2009-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 10 May 2009, Manu Sporny wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: The scenarios described above fall into three categories: searching for content, publishing content, and obtaining legal advice. Ian, these use cases and your responses to them need to be put up on a wiki somewhere - not many

Re: [whatwg] request for clarification: aside, figure

2009-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 10 May 2009, Bruce Lawson wrote: I don't think the spec is clear enough defining these two elements from an author's perspective. The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and

Re: [whatwg] Asynchronous file upload

2009-06-08 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Samuel Santos wrote: I was asked by a client if it was possible to implement something similar to the asynchronous file upload used on gmail using only standard web technologies. Looking at the gmail source code I can see that they use some flash magic. And by