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Right. I think more likely than not Chrome would have implemented their own extension and it would have become the de-facto standard. Maybe Apple would have res
by klez 4y ago
Right. I think more likely than not Chrome would have implemented their own extension and it would have become the de-facto standard. Maybe Apple would have resisted and we would have two solutions.
- ldjb 4y agoIf browser vendors want to create their own DRM extensions, then that's on them. But it seems to me that the W3C went too far in including DRM capability within the standards for the web. The end result may be comparable, but I think the principle of it is important.
- Blikkentrekker 4y agoPrincipled men achieve nothing and make the word a worse place for both themselves and those whom they care about. “principles” is another word for being irrational and nonstrategic.
- shadowgovt 4y agoIt's on them and on web developers, who then have to deal with a balkanized client space without even the courtesy of a standard to allow the page to detect whether a given decryptor is available.
- ttybird2 4y agoThis is exactly what they ended up standarizing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19553941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19553941