- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:52:14 +0300
- To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Cc: "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: > except that the scope of the opaque component will be > dramatically reduced. But is it only reduced? Or has the scope grown but in a different direction? Consider IE 8 + Silverlight on XP vs. IE 11 + EME on Windows 8.1. In both cases, the Key System is Microsoft PlayReady. In the case of Silverlight on XP, as far as I can tell, the PlayReady implementation doesn't have particularly magic capabilities compared to more mundane DLLs. It's just userland software. On Windows 8.1, however, the PlayReady component that IE 11 uses in the EME context is baked into the system. Sure, it's scope reduction that the CLI runtime is gone. But is it scope reduction that the CDM went from a userland DLL to something baked into the operating system? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@hsivonen.fi http://hsivonen.fi/
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