[ogg-dev] Re: [theora-dev] Re: [Advocacy] Re: [Vorbis-dev] Proposal: An extension to rules all others

[Ian Malone]

On 30/04/07, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I concede with the three extension letters, but oga?
>
> People tend to acknowledge a format by its extension.  That's why we
> have all this people thinking Ogg is Vorbis and that's it.
>
> Imagine someone talking with its budy over IM, "Hey, check out this song."
>
> "Crap, it's that OGA format," the other says.  "My computer can't play
> that shit."
>

I think this is orthogonal to the issue.  I can imagine
the above with any of the proposed extensions.
Extensions are rarely user-facing these days anyway;
the real point here is making concessions to the UI
(and particularly Windows) to let it tell the user about
the content of the file.

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imalone