On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: > > XUL is Mozilla only (open source lockin anyone?) > > That's platform-independent! We're talking a binary blob application > here, so there's no reason it couldn't be distributed as a custom > XULrunner binary blob for multiple platforms. Better yet, release the > source! "If you build it, they will come" Perhaps this would make a good open source project to produce a player (and perhaps the backend services) needed for Television stations to distribute their media. I think the problem here is not so much that they are choosing propriety solutions intentionally but that there are no viable, free and cross platform alternatives for their vision of said service. > > > > Its bullshit that people think that this sort of stuff needs to be > done in > > flv - embedding an mpeg stream is easy enough todo in HTML. > > Indeed, it's insane and there's absolutely no justification. I'm sure > it's just that the new media geniuses wouldn't even know to ask if > there's another way. > Its not crazy - its perfectly rational with the tools at hand. The problem probably centres around branding and customisation - which Flash does very well. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
