This is really a foundation / wikimedia community question. ... I will 
do a short email to foundation-l summarizing the technical discussion. 
Not that foundation-l has historically been the best way to build 
consensus but maybe someone else can summarize that discussion and give 
us a ball-park of the "community voice" on the matter allowing the 
foundation to move forward with something.

Meanwhile I will try and make sure the new player is good and ready to 
be integrated ;)

--michael

Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:12 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> They are happy to foul up the entire standard. I feel there is little
>> to no benefit to us in trying to imply that the situation is
>> otherwise.
>>     
>
> First of all, Apple is not "fouling up the entire standard".  They
> employ one of its two co-editors, their developers contribute to it
> very actively, and they ship an implementation that's as advanced as
> anybody's.  This is *one* specific feature that they've said they
> won't implement at the present time (but they may reconsider at any
> time).  Mozilla has vetoed features as well, as Ian Hickson has
> pointed out.  Mozilla refused to implement SQL, so that was removed
> from the standard, just as mention of Theora was.
>
> Second of all, I don't have a serious problem with Wikimedia only
> advocating the use of open-source software, say.  But if it does, it
> *must* be phrased in a way that makes it clear that it's an
> advertisement of a product we want the user to use, not a neutral
> assessment of what the best technology is for viewing the page.
> Anything else is deliberately misleading, and that's unacceptable.
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Gregory Maxwell<[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Regardless, I think we've finished the technical part of this
>> decision— the details are a matter of organization concern now, not
>> technology.
>>     
>
> Yep, definitely.
>
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