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Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me by derefr on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:51AM (#19554687)
It was never gonna happen; as soon as Intel introduced SGX, any DRM-producing company that wasn’t taking advantage of it would be seen as failing their shareholders. Even if Flash had died on schedule without browsers offering a native browser-DOM DRMed-content API, DRMed-content producers would just have jumped to another tech the DRM vendors sold them.

My guess is that, if browser vendors wouldn’t have played ball, the DRM vendors would have worked with one of the JRE vendors to optimize the Java applet runtime, and contributed to performance improvements on the browser side for all the open browsers, such that “Java applet” would no longer be a scary heavy-weight thing nobody wants their browser to launch. That would be (one of) the implicit threats hanging over browser vendors: if you don’t cooperate, we’ll take your control over innovation on the web away by refocusing it on an improved Java experience.

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Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:25AM (#19555121)
How is that "threat" a problem? That sounds like an Old Microsoft objection to cross-platform code, but the web is already cross-platform code, so that doesn't make any sense.

And if the browser vendors really didn't like it for unknown reasons then they could have just stopped supporting Java in the browser, as has largely already happened for various other reasons.

This is one of those "we all must hang together or we shall all hang separately" situations, and they apparently decided they'd prefer to hang separately.

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