Terry Collins wrote about this thread...
Some information on Annodex which we saw recently; this is a CSIRO http://www.ict.csiro.au/topic/Apr05.htm#video
Annodex is awesome technology -
Maybe!
The fine print is 1) for 512Mb ADSL lines,
2) It is alpha code,
3) requires glibc 2.3
Not maybe at all! It is awesome technology as users with this plugin and a normal browser can do things with video that we have till now we have only been able to do with text e.g. hyperlink and search. Whether you or I can use it or not on our home dialup is irrelevant. It does not detract from the fact that it's new and useful technology that will be used increasingly in the future [watch out for Winodex, coing soon :-) ].
Did people think that HTML wasn't awesome technology or useful when most users were using BBS's and plain text? Sure the HTML added lots to the overhead of a download but it provided awesome features that now we take for granted as we click around the planet.
Mike -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials & Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460 [pls ignore idiot lawyer's msg below]
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