> one can construct a web site that is not usable by devices without a > vibration ability, or by people unable to detect vibration.
If so, it's a flaw of the web page programmer by not allowing an alternative, not of the API. Vibration is a so marginal functionality (only mobile devices) that if done so, it only would means that it was done on purpose or by a bad design decision, but that's a diferent discussion. > The web has (for the most part) relied on an abstract layer of > screen+audio+keyboard+pointer, which can be instantiated in various physical > ways. I agree that piercing this veil of abstraction is dangerous, be it for > software capabilities or hardware. > I agree, I found yesterday that HTML doesn't support to have several mouse or keyboards attached to one computer... :-/ >> EME would allow to play CDMs in a binary blob, but if it's not available for >> my OS, what's suposed I should do? Use a diferent OS? Wouldn't it be better >> that W3C mandates that CDMs specifications are available so they could be >> implemented by third parties (me)? This would reduce the amount of available >> CDM mechanism, but also would allow to have a common base available from >> everywhere and also they will be the best, flawless ones… > > It's been discussed before, but there is a trust chain involved in content > delivery. The distributor has to trust that the client software is abiding > by their desires to make it difficult enough to make an unprotected copy. If > the client interface (the network transactions) is open to anyone to > implement, it's hard to see how to do that. The SUN OMC took the approach of > using code signatures, I think. > Users don't trust the distributors, and distributors don't trust their users (that it's worst), and it doesn't appear solutions that convince to the other side. I believe this discussion will drive us to a tie then... :-/ -- "Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo Unix." – Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux
