Can you tell us about Mozilla's anti-DRM efforts?

Posted May 18, 2014 7:16 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Can you tell us about Mozilla's anti-DRM efforts? by roc
Parent article: Firefox gets closed-source DRM

> They say it's "potentially fixable" but there's no indication they intend to fix it. You could argue "it's a bug" but it's hard to distinguish between implementation bugs and design bugs in PNaCl since it has no fully detailed spec --- one of the reasons why it's an inferior solution.
It's a bug and they're planning to fix this, once a good trade-off can be found. And you might notice that it's almost the only real issue. The rest are more of a kind: 'Your program will crash differently on various platforms if you try to do something stupid'.

> The behavior of the C++ code is undefined. The behavior of its JS translation is defined. That matters because it means once you've tested it in one JS VM you'll get the same behavior in other VMs.
So is PNaCl's behavior.

> The threading stuff is an issue. We're working on it, and I think you'll be surprised by how simple we can make the solution.
Without any modifications to JS? How about interfaces with sound, graphics and DOM?

Can you tell us about Mozilla's anti-DRM efforts?

Posted May 18, 2014 11:43 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

> How about interfaces with sound, graphics and DOM?

Well, we already live in a world where direct access to such things can only (safely) happen from one thread anyways (Qt, GTK, and others I'm sure). Maybe they're working on something like signals and slots which work across threads? Or proxy objects to use in other threads?

Can you tell us about Mozilla's anti-DRM efforts?

Posted May 18, 2014 12:10 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

They'll have to repeat what PNaCl has been doing - create something that is functionally indistinguishable from PPAPI.

After all, PPAPI has only one fatal flaw - http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/a-brief-history-of-windows... I believe, that it describes the current Mozilla perfectly...