Re: Cory Doctorow: W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards, says it's OK for your browser to say "I can't let you do that, Dave" [via Restricted Media Community Group] from David Singer on 2013-10-10 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from October 2013)

From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:05:54 -0700
To: Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>
Cc: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-id: <8ED06D49-6FFD-4292-B918-122353A7D2F5@apple.com>

On Oct 10, 2013, at 3:42 , Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com> wrote:

> 
> Flash has been around for over a decade, almost every browser had it installed at some point. It was never part of the W3C spec. Same for other plugins.

But the object and embed tags, which enabled it, were.  They stand in almost exactly the same place as the EME APIs, except the EME APIs are much more circumscribed in what the external plug-in can do (which is an advantage).

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Thursday, 10 October 2013 18:06:23 UTC