Am Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:39 schrieb Blake:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:35:40 -0800, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> 
wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >  Fantastic, we have several people who are interested and I hope
> > willing to play a part in improving Squeak's Multimedia
> > capabilities:
> >
> >  Blake (Blake: what's your last name?)
>
> Watson
>
> > I looked it up after Martin's email and he's right - multimedia
> > includes a variety of media such as the real-time areas (e.g.
> > film/video, music) as well as static media (e.g. text, graphics.)
>
> Well, y'know, "multimedia" is just a buzzword. (A ten year-old
> buzzword, to boot.) "Multimedia" applies to using several media in
> one context, like an encyclopedia entry on Bach that plays "Cantata
> no. 157" and shows video of his 50th birthday.
>
> Arugably, what we're interested in is A/V support. (Some of us the
> A, some of us the V.<s>)
>
> > For me, I'm obviously interested in only audio and video. I know
> > this is broad, but I just want to get the top level issues out of
> > the way. As an example of elimination, I am not interested in
> > graphics or text.
>
> I wasn't aware Squeak needed much help in the graphics/text area.

IMHO Squeak already has a lot of things we can use. But they need to 
be better integrated, polished up a little bit and bundled with some 
nice interface classes.

Martin