Could not agree more Anne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anne van Kesteren Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:38 PM To: Henri Sivonen; Shane Fagan Cc: Andy Berkheimer; John Harding; [email protected] Subject: Re: [whatwg] More YouTube response
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0200, Shane Fagan <[email protected]> wrote: > Well this isnt really a list where we should talk about the dos and > donts of web content distribution. DRM content can be embedded in the > video tag and decoded using installable plugins so its not really an > issue for this list I dont think. We cant dictate how the specs are > used so try to keep the conversation technology neutral. Whether playing video requires a plugin is very much an issue for this list, I think. What Henri explained -- not having lock-in to a particular platform because of proprietary plugins -- is a large part of the reason why we have <video> in the first place. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
