[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: On2 vs libvp62

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:12:21PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Oded Shimon <ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:26:10PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Steve Lhomme <steve.lhomme at free.fr> writes:
> >> 
> >> > M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> >>>>> You probably don't have such accomplishments - definietly not as an
> >> >>>>> "ffmpeg developer" - so why not just shut up ? (btw I don't have
> >> >>>>> such accomplishments either, but at least I have contributed to
> >> >>>>> ffmpeg more than 10 lines of trivial fixes - not much more, but
> >> >>>>> still).
> >> >>>> Accomplishments should be seen in the sense of writing good code, not
> >> >>>> writing popular code.
> >> >>> So good != useful ?
> >> >> No, but popular != useful && popular != good.
> >> >
> >> > Well, popular implies that it's useful (for a software). Do you know
> >> > many popular softwares that are not useful ?
> >> 
> >> Almost all that can even remotely be considered popular.  That
> >> includes most operating systems, desktop environments (whatever one of
> >> those is supposed to actually *do*), word processors, media players,
> >> web browsers (no, I only use firefox because it's the least bad of
> >> them right now) ...
> >
> > To be fair, he asked about usefulness. All the above mentioned things do 
> > indeed suck quite a damn bit, but they are at least _useful_...
> 
> I might possibly go as far as to call some of them usable, but
> useful... no way.
> 
> > BTW, I'm thinking opera might be the least bad browser, I'm not sure yet. 
> > Firefox seems just way too Windows oriented, memory hug and slow as 
> > hell...
> 
> Opera insists on creating the initial window maximized.  That makes it
> evil in my view.

what about dillo? ... if it only would support frames, javascript and https :(

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Michael

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