On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:22:01AM -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Peter Gervai wrote:
If they're lazy or uneducated to install a
player they probably won't miss
much since Wikipedia content is not multimedia oriented, and this may be a
drive to them to educate themselves and install the players.
That's a damned arrogant attitude. In some parts of the world people
would count themselves lucky just to have text available on a slow
connection. I support the vision of making information available in
these places, so a lot of this fancy stuff needs to be severable.
I think you missed my other sentence below that. :-)
It mentioned that apart from those (people who use hardware fit to show
video ought to be driven to use free codecs [too]) multimedia *is not*, and
*should not* be considered important (or even significant) part of
Wikipedia, which is an encyclopedia and targeting textual information
representation. I guess this shows that I support fully the "viewable by any
browser" approach and saves me from being a damned arrogant person. :-)
My opinion could be summarised that "we should concentrate on text, but when
we use graphical, sound, movie or other media files we should use and
support free formats if they're available".
grin