- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 21:54:44 -0400
- To: public-html-media@w3.org
On 5/30/13 9:34 PM, Kornel Lesiński wrote: > On Fri, 31 May 2013 01:45:11 +0100, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> > wrote: >> it would be Microsoft Silverlight, which doesn't work on many >> platforms anyway. > > I don't see why CDMs would be any less problematic in this area. This is the key issue for me, indeed. It seems like CDMs as currently proposed would simply serve to officially bless the current state of affairs. While there is potential for them to not be in the situation that current binary plug-ins are in, I see no pressure for them to be so that does not already exist for said binary plug-ins. And in fact, the lack of a defined API for the browser to talk to the CDM makes them somewhat worse than current binary plug-ins for interop, because they are likely to be strongly tied to a particular browser and the APIs they have negotiated with it. These are concrete issues with CDMs as currently proposed that I believe we should be addressing. These are also issues that have been brought up on this list before, so I'm not sure why I'm bothering again... -Boris
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