Small victories, but more work to be done

[Ori Idan]

I think this is a great idea.
That was something I wanted to do while begin W3C office manager in Israel.
Unfortunately nothing of my ideas where done, because of ISOC-IL non
cooperation.

-- 
Ori Idan


2010/1/8 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>

> 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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> 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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