Small victories, but more work to be done

[Amichai Rotman]

Guys,

wouldn't it be nice to have a web site that shows the state of compatibility
of each of the Israeli sites to standards and, consequently, FOSS?

Here is what should be on that site:

1) Top 5 or 10 "Unfriendly" sites right at the top of the first page -
Companies would kill NOT to be on that list
2) Same as 1, but the opposite - the friendliest sites.
3) A way to report sites - good an bad ones.
4) Compatibility Progress report - so we can all know what needs to be done
to "force" the specific company to make the required changes.
5. A contact list of all relevant departments of the commercial companies
and the companies that provide the hosting and design (say we find out a
specific web design company is resposable for the incompatibility by
choice?)
6) Come up with a reward system, similar to the "Eichut Ha Sherut" seal.
7) the site should be endorsed and monitored by ISOC and the W3.
8) the site should be in Hebrew, very simple in design but with enough eye
candy to be attractive, by today's standards.

I wish I knew how to make this happen. I don't mind helping out - gather the
information, contacting companies and such...

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Amichai Rotman

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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:28, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad at codefidence.com>wrote:

>  Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Small victories, but more work to be done":
>
>
>  Today I got a letter from YNET that they are moving their videos to
> Flash from WMV to support Firefox and Linux users.
>
>
>  Hi,
>
> I'm a bit curious - why do you consider changing from WMV to Flash important
> for Linux or Firefox users?
>
> Last time I checked, most Linux distributions could play neither WMV nor
> Flash movies out of the box, but software to do both is available for free.
> Software to play WMV is even available as free software (e.g., mplayer)?
> Or am I missing something?
>
>
>
> True, but...
>
> 1. Adobe has released a full spec for their flash format allowing a
> complete Free implementation. They also released the scripting engine as
> open source.
> 2. Adobe provides a proprietary flash player for Linux.
> 3. WMV (really the associated codecs, but the affect is the same ) is
> covered by numerous patents which are activly protected in the most brutal
> way, whereas the FLV format, as so much that it is patented (I don't know it
> is but I assume it is) is not, at the moment.
>
> Not a case of black and white by a long shot, but I would say flash is
> "brighter" then WMV.
>
> Gilad
>
>
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