[Coco] A bit more of CoCo history dies...

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Stephen H.
Fischer<SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] A bit more of CoCo history dies...
>
>
>
>> Not to denegrate what Stephen was trying to do in our discussion, but this
>> is
>> typical of a government operation, particularly when they are told to make
>> the
>> data available to the public.  They will carefully research what is
>> available,
>> and purposely choose a method, that while publicly available, is so
>> obscure
>> that no one has the secret decoder ring.  And of course we didn't get the
>> memo
>> either.  :(
>
> What are the alternatives to Adobe shockwave that have more than 0.001% of
> the market?
>
> There might be one in Google's set of products, or is MS's Silverlight one.
>
> I looked at the list of programs installed on my Vista Laptop and could only
> find Adobe Shockwave and MS's Silverlite.
>
> SHF

Most things that use Shockwave or other proprietary formats can be
done using open, standard tools.  From what I saw of the presentation
(it did not work 100% for me) it did nothing that couldn't have been
implemented in HTML/javascript.  Of course js is not quite an open
standard, but certainly more so than shockwave or silverlight.

The upcoming HTML 5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5) hold much
promise for making these proprietary formats unnecessary.  It will be
interesting to see what direction the online world takes.

-Aaron