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All the browser engines and most browsers are open source, so making them harder to implement does not "feed the monopoly".
by devit 7y ago
All the browser engines and most browsers are open source, so making them harder to implement does not "feed the monopoly".
- chachachoney 7y agoThat's a bit of an oversimplification. The Electronic Frontier Foundation resigned from the W3C for a reason.
- austincheney 7y agoWhat reason?
- lstamour 7y agoProbably the introduction of DRM so Hollywood would start using video tags instead of flash/silverlight/other plugins. It’s a pragmatic approach, but right now it’s incredibly limited for anyone who wants to make their own browser that can load Netflix.com, for example. The only folks DRM punishes are those trying to do the right thing, everybody else can find workarounds if they need to.
- userbinator 7y agoThe fact that the source is open doesn't say anything about difficulty of implementation; in fact, being open-source probably increases the monopolising effect, since now people will be more inclined to think "that implementation is open-source, I'll just use/contribute to it instead of starting another independent one."
- devit 7y agoIt might create a monopoly of browser engines, but not a monopoly of browser vendors, which is the harmful part (of course we might be heading to a browser vendor monopoly anyway, but that's due to Google abusing their market position, not the complexity of HTML).