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Has Mozilla really changed its policy? At a certain abstraction level, they already had a plugin in system that allowed for DRM binaries embedded in the browse
by jpadkins 12y ago
Has Mozilla really changed its policy? At a certain abstraction level, they already had a plugin in system that allowed for DRM binaries embedded in the browser. So what if the plugin system is a bit different?
You could already watch DRM netflix in firefox. If they were going from no-DRM plugin policy to allowing DRM in plugins, that would be cause for uproar. But Mozilla has always allowed DRM via plugins.
- magicalist 12y ago> Has Mozilla really changed its policy? Yes, they are accepting a web standard that can only be implemented in a closed-source and patent-encumbered way, which should be something that both Mozilla and the W3C bitterly opposed.
- wmf 12y agoArguably a DRM-specific plugin API is worse than a general-purpose plugin API (NPAPI) that was used for DRM.
- bzbarsky 12y agoEven if that DRM-specific API offers sandboxing of the plugin in ways that a general-purpose API could never hope to do?