Unfortunately, you are correct. Only the real geeks care about serious browser compliance.
When I joined my present employer, all my teammates were creating webpages via point-and-click in M$ Fr0ntP@ge (the worst program ever written, but I digress...). All it took was one big client using an iMac to bring folks around to my method of hand-coding HTML, and abandoning their WYSIWYG altogether.
Now, we code for compliance against NN4.x, NN6.x, IE5.x, IE6.x on Windoze, and IE5.x, NN4.x, NN6.x on MacOS 9.x, and IE5.x, NN6.x on MacOS X. (Incidentally, even though we don't do QA on Mozilla, the pages seem to work just fine.)
After doing a few sites like that, we now have documentation and re-usable library files to expedite compliant development, and promote uniformity.
In order to be a web professional, you must abandon your WYSIWYG and begin coding everything by hand, using raw HTML and JavaScript.
If I understand correctly, by "echo cancellation", you mean that, when several folks are talking at once, you want each person to hear everyone except themselves.
If that's the situation, I would suggest flipping each speaking person's outbound signal 180 degrees out of phase with their inbound signal. That way, their own voice will cancel itself out in their personal conversation "mix". Make sense?
To flip an audio signal out of phase, you delay it by twice its frequency. In other words, if your signal is 15 kHz, that's 15,000 waves per second. Or, 1 wave per 1/15000 of a second. If you mix in another copy of that signal which has been delayed by 1/30000 of a second, the two signals will be 180 degrees out of phase, and will cancel each other out.
It is important that you only flip the speaking person's voice out of phase with the incoming signal, so that her voice is only removed from her inbound mix.
If you can't find an open source flavor of Flash, perhaps that, in itself, could be used as a teaching-tool/motivator. Its prohibitively high cost could demonstrate why closed source is baaad, if that's where you're going with this.
Sorry I couldn't help you actually find a free-beer tool...
I'd like to address the issue of whether or not the "Kazaa folks" were aware of this slighting.
It's entirely feasible that "they" (I know, it's decentralized. But, for our purposes here, I'll refer to the various distributors [or whoever...]
as a collective "they"...) were, indeed, not aware of the fact that the other bundled software just happened to be some bullsh1t, spy-ware, virii crap.
I work for a "tech" company, and the folks who actually make the decisions (i.e. - The Suits) know little or nothing about the technology. We're continually "partnered" or "integrated" or "bundled" with some company of whose software we are virtually ignorant of. We just get with them because the name sounds good...
So, based upon my own personal professional experiences, I would offer up the possibility that, while it may not be responsible/acceptable, it is certainly feasible that someone, somewhere decided to "leverage" some "service provider" or "industry leader" or some other such industry buzzword catchphrase BS, and we all ended up with hourly firewall alerts that a default action was taken to block an inbound IP connection to a known "Backdoor/SubSeven" port!
In short, I think it sucks, but it's likely not the fault of crazy hackers - rather, it's more likely due to incompetent "decision makers"...
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When I joined my present employer, all my teammates were creating webpages via point-and-click in M$ Fr0ntP@ge (the worst program ever written, but I digress...). All it took was one big client using an iMac to bring folks around to my method of hand-coding HTML, and abandoning their WYSIWYG altogether.
Now, we code for compliance against NN4.x, NN6.x, IE5.x, IE6.x on Windoze, and IE5.x, NN4.x, NN6.x on MacOS 9.x, and IE5.x, NN6.x on MacOS X. (Incidentally, even though we don't do QA on Mozilla, the pages seem to work just fine.)
After doing a few sites like that, we now have documentation and re-usable library files to expedite compliant development, and promote uniformity.
In order to be a web professional, you must abandon your WYSIWYG and begin coding everything by hand, using raw HTML and JavaScript.
Wow - Chandler is the CEO of a CPU company?!?
If I understand correctly, by "echo cancellation", you mean that, when several folks are talking at once, you want each person to hear everyone except themselves. If that's the situation, I would suggest flipping each speaking person's outbound signal 180 degrees out of phase with their inbound signal. That way, their own voice will cancel itself out in their personal conversation "mix". Make sense? To flip an audio signal out of phase, you delay it by twice its frequency. In other words, if your signal is 15 kHz, that's 15,000 waves per second. Or, 1 wave per 1/15000 of a second. If you mix in another copy of that signal which has been delayed by 1/30000 of a second, the two signals will be 180 degrees out of phase, and will cancel each other out. It is important that you only flip the speaking person's voice out of phase with the incoming signal, so that her voice is only removed from her inbound mix.
If you can't find an open source flavor of Flash, perhaps that, in itself, could be used as a teaching-tool/motivator. Its prohibitively high cost could demonstrate why closed source is baaad, if that's where you're going with this. Sorry I couldn't help you actually find a free-beer tool...
It's entirely feasible that "they" (I know, it's decentralized. But, for our purposes here, I'll refer to the various distributors [or whoever...] as a collective "they"...) were, indeed, not aware of the fact that the other bundled software just happened to be some bullsh1t, spy-ware, virii crap.
I work for a "tech" company, and the folks who actually make the decisions (i.e. - The Suits) know little or nothing about the technology. We're continually "partnered" or "integrated" or "bundled" with some company of whose software we are virtually ignorant of. We just get with them because the name sounds good...
So, based upon my own personal professional experiences, I would offer up the possibility that, while it may not be responsible/acceptable, it is certainly feasible that someone, somewhere decided to "leverage" some "service provider" or "industry leader" or some other such industry buzzword catchphrase BS, and we all ended up with hourly firewall alerts that a default action was taken to block an inbound IP connection to a known "Backdoor/SubSeven" port!
In short, I think it sucks, but it's likely not the fault of crazy hackers - rather, it's more likely due to incompetent "decision makers"...
But hey, what do I know?