Re: [Wikitech-l] VP8 freed!

2010-05-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
This is pretty far off topic, but letting fud sit around is never a good idea. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Hay (Husky) hus...@gmail.com wrote: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377 Apparently the codec itself isn't as good as H264, and patent problems are still likely. It's better than

Re: [Wikitech-l] VP8 freed!

2010-05-20 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 06:28, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: This is pretty far off topic, but letting fud sit around is never a good idea. Sure, VP8 looks very interesting. I hope it takes off and we get a good enough patent-free codec that's more modern than Theora. On the patent

Re: [Wikitech-l] VP8 freed!

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Starling
On 20/05/10 16:28, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Codec patents are, in general, excruciatingly specific — it makes passing the examination much easier and doesn't at all reduce the patent's ability to cover the intended format because the format mandates the exact behaviour. I always assumed there

Re: [Wikitech-l] speed of Vector in en.wikipedia

2010-05-20 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/5/20 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: Are there any more precise measurements? Are there proper bugs reports about it? (I searched Bugzilla for Vector slow and didn't find anything.) There are no bugs in Bugzilla for this, currently. I will dive into this and find out where

Re: [Wikitech-l] js2 extensions / Update ( add-media-wizard, uploadWizard, timed media player )

2010-05-20 Thread Michael Dale
Helder Geovane wrote: I would support a url flag to avoid minification and or avoid script-grouping, as suggested by Michael Dale, or even to have a user preference for enable/disable minification in a more permanent way (so we don't need to change the url on each test: we just disable

Re: [Wikitech-l] speed of Vector in en.wikipedia

2010-05-20 Thread K. Peachey
For others interested, it's now been filed in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23612 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l