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Google Funds Ogg Theora For Mobile
An anonymous reader writes "Google has decided to fund the development of Theora optimized for ARM processors. The article on the Open Source at Google blog notes the importance of having a universal baseline video codec for the Web: 'What is clear though, is that we need a baseline to work from — one standard format that (if all else fails) everything can fall back to. This doesn't need to be the most complex format, or the most advertised format, or even the format with the most companies involved in its creation. All it needs to do is to be available, everywhere. The codec in the frame for this is Ogg Theora, a spin off of the VP3 codec released into the wild by On2 a couple of years ago.'"
Hi, Jeff.
XHTML was ignored because it is sensible. It is easy to parse, and hence easy to generate, easy to manipulate, and easy to validate. In most other computing fields, these would be seen as benefits. I think it's due to a collective stupidity and ignorance that web developers haven't bothered to make better use of a technology that would vastly improve their lives.
There is no need for elements like "header" and "footer" in HTML5. The exact same functionality is better represented as traditional divs or spans with a class specified. End of story. Anyone who supports the "header" and "footer" elements, among several others, supports content mixed with presentation. It's a regression.
JavaScript is a scripting language, Jeff. I shouldn't have to explain this to you. It is okay to use it for writing a single-line onclick handler. It does not, however, offer the language constructs to develop anything beyond that. We have far too many ignorant web developers who think that JavaScript is a good language, but that's only because they're totally ignorant of everything else. Use C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, C#, OCaml, Haskell, Scheme or Common Lisp for even a week, and you'll immediately see how fucked up JavaScript is, and how pathetic of a language it is for development of code that exceeds two or three lines in length.
What are some of these "amazing things" that have been done with JavaScript? Tell me, Jeff. Tell me. It sure as fuck isn't GMail. Thunderbird, mutt and even goddamn Outlook are still more pleasant to use than GMail's web interface. It isn't Facebook, because that site is as slow as molasses, yet still doesn't do anything interesting with JavaScript. Is it those JavaScript re-implementations of video games from the 1970s, the ones that run slower than the originals did? Sorry, Jeff, nobody has done anything unique with JavaScript. That's why most web "apps" are pure shit compared to their desktop equivalents from the early 1990s.
Your final comment notes that web developers aren't interested in quality and technical superiority. You're right. Why should they? What they care about is getting a product out.
This, Jeff, is why web "apps" are so shitty, and will continue to be shitty. You guys, even at "respected" companies like Google, are all about "getting product out". Great, you've "shipped your product". That doesn't change the fact that it's shit, and basically unusable. But what the fuck, you've "shipped". That's all that matters, right? Actually, no. You guys are basically the same as Indian offshore developers, who shovel out one piece of shit after another. You guys are a disgrace to software development.
This is what gets modded "insightful" - a single statement with no backing or even basis in reality? Just vague FUD?
I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.