On 2/8/2013 5:37 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
W3C is proposing a revised charter for the HTML Working Group.
For more details, see:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2013Feb/0009.html
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/charter/2012/
Mozilla has the opportunity to send comments or objections through
Tuesday, March 12. Please reply to this thread if you think there's
something we should say.
The only really interesting thing in the new charter seems to be the
explicit call for standardizing "playback of protected content" for the
HTMLMediaElement, which is pretty much codewords for DRM.
DRM is fundamentally at odds with the notion of an open web and the HTML
specification. The purpose of good specifications is to make it possible
for anyone to implement a browser that can render the web. The purpose
of DRM is to make it possible for content owners to give only some
browsers the ability to play their content. DRM also defeats "save",
sharing, and remixing, which are fundamental aspects of the web.
Whether or not there are practical short-term compromises that should be
made to make a better alternative to Silverlight, I don't think that it
should be within the scope of "HTML" to do that; it should be a separate
effort, highly targeted at solving the "devices based on HTML currently
can't play netflix content" problem without making any long-term
commitments to DRM in the browser.
--BDS
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