Katrina Niolet wrote: > Keep in mind that flash is not used only for pointless youtube > videos and > bad programming, there are sites like hulu.com which rely on > flash because > there is no widely available alternative currently for > delivering the kind > of media experience they want to give. While long term some of > the features > of HTML5 are designed to fix these problems, it's still way > off and content > providers won't be shifting overnight either. Users may > incorrectly blame > the device manufacturer for their memory filling up or slow connections > but they would not be incorrect to blame a manufacturer who sells > devices they > can't access their favorite websites on simply because of > political reasons.
Yes, I keep forgetting about hulu, which is a mistake on my part (because it's inaccessible to me: I'm total-data limited on my connection so something like that is way too expensive). It's political no matter what you do, but I think there's one thing we can take as a concrete suggestion: we ought to encourage whatever implementations do exist to be "location aware", or more precisely connection-aware. A settings box could be fine, e.g. I could tick a box that says don't auto-play video content if I'm on my phone network, but go ahead if I'm on wifi - that sort of thing. And of course if I'm on a settop box and it's directly connected to a nice fat pipe, maybe I don't even worry about asking. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
