On 8/4/10 3:14 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Neil
Kandalgaonkar<neilk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On a more serious note: when it comes to Flash on
Wikimedia projects,
the WMF board has said no.
Has it? Where? I think everyone is grudgingly okay for Flash as a
fallback for browsers that don't support standards-based markup . . .
but not if it's the only way to get the functionality.
I looked for some sort of meeting minutes before posting, but couldn't
find them. Maybe I don't know where or how to look.
I don't think there is an official Board resolution about the use of
proprietary technologies on Wikimedia projects. However, Brion and Erik
have been known to have a pretty strong opinion on that, and I believe
Danese and a large part of the WMF tech staff are in the same place.
A few relevant links for a historical perspective:
* "We should permit Flash video playback" thread on foundation-l in 2007
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