On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:26:25 PDT, Ogla Sungutay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Here is the funny part: How does an Mozilla-Evas > plug-in sound? This would buy you what, realistically, as far as buy-in goes? It's one thing to do it as a proof-of-concept, but there's a large bootstrap issue here: What (possibly only percieved) benefit do people get from installing the plug-in, and what reason do web content creators have to use the format? For whatever level of "evil" you wish to assign to .SWF and RealMedia formats, the point still remains that people install the plugins in order to display *types* of content that would otherwise not be available. Unless your plugin addresses an identifiable need, it's basically dead-on-arrival. SWF fills a need for bandwidth-friendly animation, RealMedia fills a need for audio/video, and the various VRML plugins fill the needs of those users. What would an Evas plugin actually do besides "be cool"? (Anybody else remember the days when Netscape's website had a plugin page that listed 3 zillion plugins, at least half of which had blurbs that totally failed to explain why it was worth the effort of downloading and installing said plugin?)
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