Personally I think we should sign the applet, and invest in it for about year, pending ogv.js being ready and integrated. Cortado may not be a great user experience, but it beats no user experience at all.
Looking around on the internet, the cheaper code signing certs cost about $180 year. This seems like a reasonable option for now, with hopefully ogv.js being integrated around the time of "kaltura player upgrades" [1], which I think is supposed to happen late this year. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-June/000580.html --bawolff On 6/19/14, Derk-Jan Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say that we at least should not keep it in limbo while we wait for > alternatives. Either let's just pull the plug on it now and strip it out of > everything, reducing the complexity of the current TMH code or sign it and > commit to it for another year or something. > > DJ > > > On 19 jun. 2014, at 18:20, Faidon Liambotis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Brian Wolff (Cc'ed) requested a few days ago for Wikimedia to sign the >> Cortado Java applet that we serve as a fallback to play video on >> browsers that do not support Ogg video. That's RT #7695. >> >> From Brian's request: "Java has changed their default security settings >> so that unsigned java applets (and even signed applets missing >> permissions attribute) generally don't run. In order to make this >> fallback work, we should sign the java applet." >> >> A non-EV code-signing certificate costs something between $200-$500 per >> year but before we go ahead and consider making this expense, I'd like >> to open the discussion about Cortado's future. >> >> I know Brion Vibber (also Cc'ed) has made a significant effort on >> implelementing Ogg/Ogv decoding functionality in Javascript and Flash >> with an end-goal of replacing Cortado, among others. We also had an >> impromptu discussion with Brion and a few others in Zurich >> (unfortunately with noone from multimedia, though), during which it was >> widely agreed that Java applets provide a very poor user experience in >> the modern web landscape. >> >> What's the multimedia team's & community's opinion on that? Do you have >> any plans regarding Cortado and/or ogv.js? Do you think we should invest >> further into Cortado? >> >> Thanks, >> Faidon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Multimedia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > > _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
