[Foundation-l] We should permit Flash video playback

[GerardM]

Hoi,
When we want to make more content available, providing better support for
fonts would be at least of equal value. Many articles about languages resort
to images to show text. For many languages fonts are not provided. For many
scripts there is not even complete support in Unicode.

Given the aims of our Foundation, I would argue that fonts are more central
to our ideals then supporting codecs.

Thanks,
      GerardM

On 7/20/07, Roger Luethi <collector at hellgate.ch> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:20:24 +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:
> > I think we should base such a decision on hard numbers as much as
> > possible. It's hard to define a "threshold of tolerance" for
> > proprietary formats, but, making up a couple of numbers on the spot,
> > if
> > - two-thirds of users can play the file in question without installing
> > additional software;
>
> Isn't that saying "it must be supported by the default Windows install",
> just in different words? Flash could make the list, but that might already
> be the end of it. I doubt even Java would make it.
>
> I see the benefits of making content more accessible, but I'd prefer the
> foundation focusing on efforts to ease the installation of free codecs. If
> more users had free codecs installed, it would benefit us all.
>
> Roger
>
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