Yeah, and doesn't it compress better than mp3? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 12:15 AM Subject: Free, Open Streaming Media > 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. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
