[Bug 10902] <video> element needs to support some form of DRM solution

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10902

--- Comment #40 from Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> 2010-10-13 13:44:29 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #39)
> > In any case, this is something for browsers
> > actually supporting DRM to figure out.
> 
> how?
> 
> serious question, incidentally: as an author, this suggestion would appear to
> be that I file a ER against WebKit asking for "a means to determine that a
> particular DRM scheme is supported", and do the same for (say) IE, wait several
> years, and then come back to the HTML WG and say "well, WebKit now does this,
> IE does this, Gecko doesn't support any DRM, some embedded deployments of Opera
> do, but don't have a way to detect it, can we reach some consensus and maybe
> stick something in the spec?"

Yes, this is pretty much how I expect it to work. Given the lack of input from
browsers that want to support DRM, standardizing anything right now would be
premature. It's better if those who understand (and care about) the issues
solve them.

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Received on Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:44:32 UTC