[FM Discuss] Fwd: [Consortium] Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5

[Mick Fuzz]

hi there, 

i'm going to work on a creating ogg manual this
morning after this news... 

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251

mick
--- Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:10:57 -0800
> From: Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org>

> 
> Note that flaming on the what-wg list is no longer
> an effective way to 
> take action. There are people working on that issue,
> but I think outrage 
> has been effectively expressed at this point.
> 
> Things you can do which will absolutely help:
> 
> * Get more Ogg/Vorbis/Theora content out there on
> the web. The bigger 
> the pool of media in free formats and the more
> communities relying on 
> it, the more attractive it will be for everyone to
> implement.
> 
> * Improve support in the tools you use. Either
> directly if you're a 
> writer, designer or coder, or by supporting and
> commissioning such work 
> within your communities whenever you can. It could
> be a lot easier to 
> work with free formats, and we all need your help.
> 
> * Educate your peers about free formats, and what
> kind of world they're 
> creating if they're using encumbered formats. I
> might not cost them 
> now, but it will cost everybody in the long run. Get
> them doing the 
> right thing.
> 
> * Agitate with sites you visit to provide content in
> unencumbered 
> formats, if only as an alternate. Point them at
> engagemedia's excellent 
> "FOSS Codecs for Online Video" paper for technical
> advice, or help them 
> out yourself.
> 
> * Try out the Firefox and Opera builds with native
> Ogg support. Report 
> bugs. If you're a web developer, play with the new
> support, and build on 
> the work projects like metavid.org and wikimedia
> have done to make using 
> free formats on the web as slick and easy as
> possible. Push the state of 
> the art.
> 
> In other words, lead by example. Quiet actions move
> mountains.
> 
> For the win,
>  -r
> 
> --
> Ralph Giles
> Xiph.org Foundation
> 
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