Re: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?

On 2013/06/05 12:17, Jeff Jaffe wrote:
> On 6/5/2013 5:57 AM, Emmanuel Revah wrote:
>> 
>> I have a few questions and thoughts, they may appear naive, simplistic 
>> or may contain comprehension errors, let me know if I misunderstood.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> On W3C » Standards » Browsers and Authoring Tools - 
>> http://www.w3.org/standards/agents/Overview.html
>> 
>> "We should be able to publish regardless of the software we use,
> 
> I don't think that EME restricts people from publishing on the Web
> regardless of the software they use.  If they use FOSS software they
> can publish without DRM and nothing in EME prevents them from doing
> so.
> 
>> the computer we have, the language we speak, whether we are wired or 
>> wireless, regardless of our sensory or interaction modes. We should be 
>> able to access the web from any kind of hardware that can connect to 
>> the Internet – stationary or mobile, small or large. W3C facilitates 
>> this listening and blending via international web standards. These 
>> standards ensure that all the crazy brilliance continues to improve a 
>> web that is open to us all."
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> The W3 should promote specs/standards/technologies that can be used 
>> regardless of the user's choice of software (for reading or writing). 
>> Free/Open or proprietary, the choice the user will make should not be 
>> dictated by the standards.
> 
> I'm not sure where W3C makes any statement of this form.  As I've said
> elsewhere in this discussion, it might be a good idea to add that
> policy, but I'm not aware that this is the policy today.


On W3C.org » Standards » Browsers and Authoring Tools ->  link: 
http://www.w3.org/standards/agents/Overview.html
"We should be able to publish regardless of the software we use [...] We 
should be able to access the web from any kind of hardware that can 
connect to the Internet"

I don't know if this is a policy but it is on the W3's website.



-- 
Emmanuel Revah
http://manurevah.com

Received on Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:40:50 UTC