I think this is a great idea. That was something I wanted to do while begin W3C office manager in Israel. Unfortunately nothing of my ideas where done, because of ISOC-IL non cooperation.
-- Ori Idan 2010/1/8 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> > Guys, > > wouldn't it be nice to have a web site that shows the state of > compatibility of each of the Israeli sites to standards and, consequently, > FOSS? > > Here is what should be on that site: > > 1) Top 5 or 10 "Unfriendly" sites right at the top of the first page - > Companies would kill NOT to be on that list > 2) Same as 1, but the opposite - the friendliest sites. > 3) A way to report sites - good an bad ones. > 4) Compatibility Progress report - so we can all know what needs to be done > to "force" the specific company to make the required changes. > 5. A contact list of all relevant departments of the commercial companies > and the companies that provide the hosting and design (say we find out a > specific web design company is resposable for the incompatibility by > choice?) > 6) Come up with a reward system, similar to the "Eichut Ha Sherut" seal. > 7) the site should be endorsed and monitored by ISOC and the W3. > 8) the site should be in Hebrew, very simple in design but with enough eye > candy to be attractive, by today's standards. > > I wish I knew how to make this happen. I don't mind helping out - gather > the information, contacting companies and such... > > .:====================================================:. > > Amichai Rotman > > UIN#: 6401746 > Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] > Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > .:====================================================:. > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:28, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gi...@codefidence.com>wrote: > >> Nadav Har'El wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Small victories, but more >> work to be done": >> >> >> Today I got a letter from YNET that they are moving their videos to >> Flash from WMV to support Firefox and Linux users. >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm a bit curious - why do you consider changing from WMV to Flash important >> for Linux or Firefox users? >> >> Last time I checked, most Linux distributions could play neither WMV nor >> Flash movies out of the box, but software to do both is available for free. >> Software to play WMV is even available as free software (e.g., mplayer)? >> Or am I missing something? >> >> >> >> True, but... >> >> 1. Adobe has released a full spec for their flash format allowing a >> complete Free implementation. They also released the scripting engine as >> open source. >> 2. Adobe provides a proprietary flash player for Linux. >> 3. WMV (really the associated codecs, but the affect is the same ) is >> covered by numerous patents which are activly protected in the most brutal >> way, whereas the FLV format, as so much that it is patented (I don't know it >> is but I assume it is) is not, at the moment. >> >> Not a case of black and white by a long shot, but I would say flash is >> "brighter" then WMV. >> >> Gilad >> >> >> -- >> Gilad Ben-Yossef >> Chief Coffee Drinker >> >> Codefidence Ltd. >> The code is free, your time isn't.(TM) >> >> Web: http://codefidence.com >> Email: gi...@codefidence.com >> Office: +972-8-9316883 ext. 201 >> Fax: +972-8-9316885 >> Mobile: +972-52-8260388 >> >> Q: How many NSA agents does it take to replace a lightbulb? >> A: dSva7DrYiY24yeTItKyyogFXD5gRuoRqPNQ9v6WCLLywZPINlu! >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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