____/ High Plains Thumper on Monday 06 August 2007 04:48 : \____
> Following was sent recently and describes the strangehold
> Microsoft has on the Internet. Public viewing should not be tied
> to a particular proprietary operating system and browser.
>
> http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/60606.html
>
> [quote]
> harishpillay (harishpillay) wrote, @ 2007-08-05 23:36:00
> NDP online viewing only for Windows users?
> [This is sent to STForum <stforum@xxxxxxxxxx>]
>
> Dear Editor -
>
> I am baffled as to why it is that those of us who want to view
> the 42nd National Day celebrations online have to have Microsoft
> Windows to do so?
>
> I was trying to view
> http://www.ndp.org.sg/infocomm/livecelebration/ and it says:
>
> "1. You may need to install ActiveX* components for viewing the
> "Live Celebrations" if prompted.
> * ActiveX is built on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM),
> and is used primarily to develop interactive content for the
> World Wide Web.
>
> 2. The live coverage is best viewed using Internet Explorer"
>
> I run Firefox and use Linux exclusively. When there are plenty of
> totally cross platform, free and open streaming video
> technologies, like for example Theora (www.theora.org), it seems
> that the technology decision makers decided on a closed,
> platform-restricted and proprietary format as the way forward.
> [/quote]
This type of stupidity won't fly for much longer.
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