Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple
exactly what Apple is attacking FB over.) Depesh Mandalia / @depeshm : Who's signing up for Apple ads?! I love the paradoxical wording: a) the Apple ad platform does not track you b) but don't turn of...
W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects
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W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects
The organization that sets standards for the web just failed to beat back a stupid, greedy technology. — This week the World Wide Web Consortium …
On Encrypted Video and the Open Web
There has been a lot of response to the announcement that W3C considers content protection for video as in-scope for discussion in the HTML Working Group. In this post I can touch on some of the argu...
Don't let the myths fool you: the W3C's plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users.
A handful of myths have become common defenses of the W3C's plan for “Encrypted Media Extensions” (EME), a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) scheme for HTML5, the next version of the markup langua...
China to help shape the web's future from new W3C base
The W3C is announcing a partnership with China's Beihang University that will see it host the standards-making body's activities in the country and promote collaboration with Chinese tech companies, w...
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others join forces to launch new Web standards resource
In an attempt to create the “definitive resource” for all open Web technologies, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera have joined the W3C to launch a new website ca...
HTML5 vs. HTML
THANKS TO THE WORK of the WHAT WG, the orations of Steve, the acclaim of developers, and a dash of tasteful pamphleteering, the W3C finally has a hit technology on its hands. Indeed, it has a cluster...