Free, Open Streaming Media

[Rich Caloggero]

The OGG Vorbis format is not proprietary, and was explicitly created to stay
that way.
http://www.vorbis.com

                    Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: 17 May, 2002 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: java/java script/ya ain't missing much


The theory of the Javascript submit button (at least as I understand it,)
is that it makes the client do  data verification rather than the server.
For example, if you are making an online purchase, and you enter 1 too
many digits in your credit card number, the client would catch this before
the data got uploaded to the server and sent to a bank and then returned
as invalid.  I still think that it's just laziness.  I remember in college
that I had a professor who used Java script on his web page that was
needed for class.  This was back in the days of IE3 and Netscape 3.01.  As
you can imagine, it was real hard to use.  Almost impossible, in fact.
Even when I explained it to him, he flat refused to replace the
Javascript.

Now, as for those Javascript links, I think the only thing they do is
serve you those annoying popup adds.  I can't stand how so many sites with
Real Audio content happily use those things.  Oh, speaking of Real media,
did anybody notice how they switched to that "Real One" player, abandoned
Linux and Windows 95, and from what I hear, the new player is
inaccessible.  Shows how much they care about their users!  I think
somebody needs to come up with a GPL streaming format.  Every audio/video
streaming format I know of is proprietary.