Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

On Jul 5, 2013, at 13:43 , Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 10:30 -0700, David Singer wrote:
>> On Jul 4, 2013, at 2:23 , Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Tell us a better answer.
>>> 
>>> No, we won't. Preserving intellectual property is not our fight.
>> 
>> 
>> Then please tone down the complaints that the best others can do is not to your taste.  It's easy to complain; what we need to do is find better ways.
> 
> We are not here to discuss personal tastes.

Well, statements to the effect "you shouldn't do X because I don't like it, or think it wrong" are rather like taste positions.

> If you can't find a better
> way, then you should tone down the effort of standardizing solutions
> that even you don't believe are great.

I am trying to help us find the best balance I can between various competing needs, and at the moment, this is the best I can find.  You're welcome to not like it, and you're welcome to come up with better ideas. What I think is not very helpful is to try to stop something happening when there is no better alternative offered.


David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Friday, 5 July 2013 21:10:06 UTC