- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:26:19 +0100
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: "www-tag.w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > This parallel does beg the question as to whether the difference > between the freely-available Adobe and Apple plugins for use with the > <object> tag, and the presumably restricted-to-customers CDM plugins > which will be necessary for use with EME changes the overall picture > in important ways. Until this question is confronted and addressed, > I'm not sure the above justification for EME in HTML5 holds up. >From reading http://hsivonen.fi/eme/ https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-bridge-of-khazad-drm/ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.planning/4-svns_uEjA/Gk6iehrttmkJ it seems they are not comparable. However, even ignoring that such an argument seems unsatisfactory. Plugins are a real problem for the web as well. E.g. the Nintendo Wii came out with an inferior version of Flash (and I suppose a deal had to be made with Adobe for that, I don't know any specifics). That is a far cry from the web we should be developing. A web whose clients can be independently implemented from standards written in English (without the involvement of lawyers). -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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