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Money quote: > Losing a battle is a bitter experience. I won’t sugar-coat this pill. But we must swallow it if we are to succeed in our mobile initiatives. Mo
by MatthewPhillips 15y ago
Money quote:
> Losing a battle is a bitter experience. I won’t sugar-coat this pill. But we must swallow it if we are to succeed in our mobile initiatives.
Mozilla fought the good fight, and lost. Instead of standing on a street corner with a bullhorn, Mozilla is going to move on to fight the next battle. Those would be WebRTC and Google/Netflix's Web DRM initiative.
- tomjen3 15y agoWhat the hell is wrong with real time capabilities (I won't comment on open source DRM, except to say it would make an okay April first joke)? The web needs them, if it is to become the future we always wanted.
- wmf 15y agoWebRTC is good; the question is whether it should use VP8 or H.264. Apple will argue for H.264 while Mozilla will argue for VP8. Since WebRTC has not been deployed yet there is no status quo to create path dependence.