Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: lessig.org site supporting Adobe's proprietary Flash format

[Lee Braiden]

On Friday 29 February 2008 15:37:28 Chris Croughton wrote:
> If you want ordinary people to look at what you produce, do it in the
> format they are most likely to be able to use.  Doing it in some weird
> new format they've never heard of with the material you want htem to see
> being in a 'legacy' area will only annoy them.

Hmm.. I would say fix the root bug, rather than breaking known-good things as 
a workaround for the bug.  For example, websites should never have been 
adapted to work with non-compliant browsers like IE.  That works around a 
bug, instead of fixing the buggy browser.  As a result, we all have to live 
with horrible legacy web compatibility issues.

In this case, I think the right thing to do is put content on sites in open 
formats.  If they are difficult to play, then explanations should be provided 
in the short-term, and plugins should be provided in the long-term.


-- 
Lee