On Thursday 15 May 2014 22:55:45 »Q« wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 20:31:14 +0100 > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know if Gentoo will provide a USE flag to enable this if > > desired? > > > > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-em > > e/ > > It may not even be possible to enable it in Gentoo builds or it may be > possible only in firefox-bin builds. From that article (which is by > Mozilla's CTO, by the way), > > Mozilla will distribute the sandbox alongside Firefox, and we are > working on deterministic builds that will allow developers to use a > sandbox compiled on their own machine with the CDM as an alternative. > > IMO they *must* make that possible. Otherwise the sandbox itself has > to be a binary blob, which would negate much of reason for having a > sandbox in the first place -- it would only be an alleged sandbox. > > He also says, > > As plugins today, the CDM itself will be distributed by Adobe and > will not be included in Firefox. > > So if/when Gentoo gets around to making the CDM available, ISTM it will > almost certainly be a package separate from Firefox. If so, maybe > there will be a USE flag for Firefox which pulls the CDM in as a > dependency, but that flag should be off by default (again IMO).
Yes, I'd rather that it was implemented in this way so that we have to opt in for allowing DRM on our machines, rather than having to opt out. It is worrying to see that HTML5 is being usurped by the likes of Adobe and their media industry friends, as if adobe-flash was not bad enough. -- Regards, Mick
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