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Mozilla fought harder against EME than any other browser vendor by far. As a user concerned about the open web, using Mozilla products is a way to bolster it.
by nwah1 10y ago
Mozilla fought harder against EME than any other browser vendor by far. As a user concerned about the open web, using Mozilla products is a way to bolster it.
- throwaway2048 10y agoYou make it sound like other browser vendors fought it at all, the EME spec was written by Google, and supported by microsoft and apple. This is not a case of the w3c "forcing standards" upon innocent browsers. The people writing w3c standards work for these companies.
- bzbarsky 10y agoTo be fair, there were specific people at Google who _did_ fight the EME spec, including in the W3C discussion; the spec was written by the "youtube" part of Google, and the people who were more in the "open web" part of Google didn't necessarily agree with it. But yes, Google as a whole sure didn't object and didn't exactly delay implementing in Chrome...