[Freeswitch-users] G729B and mod_com_g729

[Steve Underwood]

It is worth looking at Internet Explorer as an example of the sad 
consequences of tolerance. Microsoft made it so tolerant of wrongly 
tagged languages, file types, etc. that it now practically ignores all 
the tagging, even when the tagging is right. Perfectly good web pages 
get misinterpreted very frequently.

The tolerance of IE has made web page designers so sloppy that about 90% 
of the world's Chinese language web pages only display correctly if you 
set your locale to the appropriate type of Chinese (traditional or 
simplified), or manually force each page you visit. The designer has 
their locale set to Chinese, and never bothers checking beyond that.

If you have worked with things like webmail, you will know that the 
handling of files, like attached voice mails, in the displayed mail is 
very quirky in IE. By trying to be super tolerant it ends up with near 
random behaviour.

So, a short term move in the 90s by MS, which must have made people 
greatly thank them in the short term, has turned out to be a HUGE PITA.

Steve


On 12/11/2010 01:38 AM, Brian West wrote:
> NDLB-allow-bad-iananame is the option you want on the profile.
>
> The issue with the continued acceptance of broken things is what keeps getting us into this hole that we will never climb out of if we don't STOP IT.  If its wrong do NOT accept it and make the vendor fix their non-compliant crap otherwise this is only going to continue to get worse!
>
> /b
>
> On Dec 10, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Steven Ayre wrote:
>
>> Brian, just out of curiosity (and I know this is bad bad bad bad) why
>> not have a compatibility setting so that codecs identified by static
>> IANA-assigned numbers (his example uses G729's assigned 18) can still
>> function. Or are there any broken devices that use the wrong numbers
>> that that might cause even problems with?
>>
>> *ducks*
>>
>> -Steve