Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:36 PM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote:
> It strikes me that Firefox and Amaya (to name 2 "Open" web browsers) will happily run on Windows, and neither the Mozilla foundation nor the W3C seem to feel that this is in contradiction to their Missions.

It's worth noting, though, that Firefox seeks to maintain feature
parity in terms of what's exposed to the Web across the different
desktop platforms even when proprietary system facilities are used as
part of the implementation on proprietary systems. For example, on
Windows, Firefox can use DirectWrite, but the capability exposed to
the Web is not DirectWrite per se but TrueType rasterization which can
be delivered using FreeType on desktop Linux.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Friday, 28 June 2013 12:01:10 UTC