Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC digital curriculum service in England

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-10-12 14:52:06 +0100 Alex Hudson <address@hidden> wrote:

> The problem we really have here is that there isn't really a good
> alternative to Flash. There is scripted SVG, but that has few 
> authoring
> tools, would be difficult to create content in and would be limited in
> terms of sound and video. It's also not terribly well supported by 
> free
> software. Mostly ditto SMIL and/or MPEG.

Alex, I know you're busy, but you seem to have a wealth of knowledge 
about this field, both Flash and Java, which I'd describe as "the 
browser plugins problem". Can you take a brain dump onto your wiki and 
then list subscribers can try to update it sensibly as this 
conversation develops?

Eventually, could this be a good item for the sometimes-discussed AFFS 
info-sheets? I've seen a few things about this topic in the past, but 
I still deal with straight xhtml/CSS/CGI work, so I've not bookmarked 
them. I could probably find them again for this.

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