Graham Coles

UK

Software Engineer

So, am I being naive in assuming that the British Library with their public funding won't be producing another BBC style fiasco (like the 'designed to be platform independent' player that requires Windows XP and internet explorer!)

I hope I'm wrong, after all, this could be done trivially with some decent html and a universal standard graphic format like png or jpeg. Should take no effort at all in producing a website viewable with firefox on any platform.

So, after witnessing the BBC disaster, I'll await the 'must be viewed with IE nine and three quarters with media player seventeen and Vista SP1' with some crappy low-res thumbnails for anyone stupid enough to be using anything else.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong and being unjustly cynical. Only time will tell ...