Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-05 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/3 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Interesting question to the backstage community... If we ran a competition which required the final prototype to be in I think its misguided for the BBC to require any particular kind of technology, since it is a publicaly funded organisation it ought

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-05 Thread Andy
I agree whole heartedly with Michael here, Personally, I prefer competitions that have a goal based upon the end user experience rather than technologies the application utilises. So build an app which encourages the over 60s to listen to BBC 1xtra rather than build an app using AIR. Again, the

Re: [backstage] Quick idea for BBC News video

2008-07-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not so sure, its actually a good idea I think. A simple querystring element which starts the video as soon as possible. I'll put it in our ideas section, including your reason why not :) Peter Bowyer wrote: You pretty much talked yourself out

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So a little history I was approached by a large company to run a competition based on there technology. The base technology was xml but required there software to play it back. I did turn down the offer for many of the reasons brought up on the list

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-05 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/4 Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was approached by a large company to run a competition based on there technology. The base technology was xml but required there software to play it back. I assume it was proprietary software :-( I did turn down the offer for many of the reasons