[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpeg.org clean up

[Mike Melanson]

Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37:57AM -0800, Mike Melanson wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:16:38AM -0800, Mike Melanson wrote:
>>>> Let me know of a plausible, cross-browser method to display 
>>>> informational graphs (like performance vs. revision) in FATE using your 
>>>> set of constraints. I'm still trying to solve that problem after a year.
>>> Forget the cross-browser constraint.  Just make sure it follows the
>>> relevant standards.  Browsers will eventually catch up, except maybe
>>> IE, the use of which should be discouraged anyway.
>> So, adhere to standards that no one uses, and that the biggest browser 
>> on the market does not care about?
> 
> I think we were talking about FATE, I'd think there is no _need_ for IE to
> work for that...

This is true. People have suggested something called Mozilla Canvas. I'm 
not all that thrilled about having to reinvent an entire graphing 
library with (essentially) PutPoint() and DrawLine() methods.

I also entertained the idea of SVG. But I don't want to think about the 
amount of textual information I would have to send down in order to 
render a proper graph.

-- 
     -Mike Melanson