YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters

Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by geofft on Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:03AM (#9013334)

That is a fair point, but I would also consider that a (limited) victory on par with the (limited) victory of moving from Flash to EME, and I wish it got more press. The people who are implementing sandboxes are doing massively effective work to improve the security and privacy of everyone using the web. Chrome has been quite active here and I don't think they can be thanked enough.

That said, PPAPI is Chrome-only; EME is a standard, and Mozilla's implementation even outlines a way for other browsers to integrate the EME module Mozilla uses, plus their sandbox, into their own browsers.

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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by dark_photon on Saturday February 07, 2015 @04:56AM (#9013582)

I think the point is that Chrome uses PPAPI for both Flash and EME.

Firefox also uses some kind of sandbox for plugins (like Flash) but yes, their planned sandbox for EME is stricter.

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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by aikah on Saturday February 07, 2015 @03:23AM (#9013456)

there is no victory here. EME is as bad as flash if not worse.People who refuse to acknowledge that simple fact are as guilty as vendors pushing these technologies.

>> EME is a standard,

That's the heart of the problem. It guarantees the fact that web technologies are not open technologies anymore.

>> Mozilla's implementation

Mozilla dropped the ball years ago when it comes to proprietary techs. I see little difference between Firefox and Chrome on that matter.

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