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Just for my context - is the browser plugin DOM interface used for plugins (the <object> tag) a W3C standard as well? I fully agree with point 2. Even if all b
by DCKing 12y ago
Just for my context - is the browser plugin DOM interface used for plugins (the <object> tag) a W3C standard as well?
I fully agree with point 2. Even if all browser vendors assumed this point to be true however, I think Netflix and other video content providers would have 'happily' run Flash and Silverlight for years and years. There hasn't been a shortage of browser DRM options for a very long time now. EME is an improvement over the Flash/Silverlight situation, and a realistic option at this point for improving the situation right now.
It's a shame Firefox is being derided for being pragmatic or not being perfectly virtuous here. With implementing EME they are still working on improving the openness of the web.
- azakai 12y agoBrowser plugins were never standardized. NPAPI was just done at netscape, later used by some other browsers too, but not all - not by Internet Explorer, in particular, which has its own plugin API. At some point Google proposed standardizing PPAPI, a new plugin API (and a very large and complex one), but it met with no interest.