I agree with you completely, that Flash is useful as a transitional technology. But I got a very firm no from Danese who is interpreting what the Board has said in the past.
There was a thread on Wikitech-L about this (you were probably distracted at the time due to family stuff). http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/msg08550.html On 9/17/10 2:25 PM, Michael Dale wrote: > On 09/17/2010 12:24 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: >> Discussions about using closed source tools are not taboo. Not at all, I >> think we should continue to review decisions about tools. I myself have >> raised questions about (for instance) our decision to never use Flash, >> even if we use a 100% free toolchain. >> >> > > I don't think we were ever against flash player as part of a tool set to > widely support free formats. > > Flash is widely deployed consistent applet environment, there is no > reason to avoid supporting it if it helps distribute ~free~ content. For > example we have had brief talks of adding flash svg viewer so that IE > users could better interact with SVG files. And you can be sure that > once adobe ships native support for WebM it will provide much better > experience for IE visitors to view free format videos than the > fragmented java VM ecosystem that cortado has to run in. > > The foundation has only had a position of support for free formats, it > has to my knowledge never stated any position against proprietary > clients viewing free content or open source applets in proprietary > platforms. Most of our visitors use IE after all. > > --michael > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) <ne...@wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
