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