Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

> > As John and others have pointed out, the W3C rejecting EME will hardly
> > stop interested companies from going ahead with it.  In fact, several
> > have already.  The difference is that the W3C won't have to compromise
> > its principles and mission.
> 
> nor will high-value content be accessible through the web, referencable
> through URLs, accessible using web accessibility techniques, stylable
> using user style-sheets, or a lot of other things.
> 
> do you really think there are no consequences?  that other principles
> won't suffer if you only look at this one?  

I'm well aware of those consequences.  

In fact, as I've said explicitly on this list in reply to a post by
John: I understand that other principles will suffer, but I consider the
Open Web principles to be of paramount importance.

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