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by dingaling 3689 days ago
> but Encrypted Media Extensions are definitly not an advantage

Yes, it is dishonest of Google to keep referring to 'the Open Web' when 'HTML5 video' is heading towards being simply an enabler for other proprietary plug-ins.

The Open Web of binary blobs.
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jcranmer 3689 days ago
I'm still waiting for Google Hangouts to actually use WebRTC and not require a plugin (or NaCl). Like they promised several years ago.

Google has been really dishonest about their moves to the Open Web.

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fixermark 3689 days ago
"Open Web" includes online commerce. It's still open even though people use HTTPS-encrypted data streams, for example.
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supergreg 3689 days ago
Browser makers don't need to get a certification to use HTTPS.
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fixermark 3689 days ago
No, but they do need to get a signed chain-of-trust certificate rooted to a certificate authority recognized by their clients' user agents. They also need a well-defined domain name that was registered through some domain-name registrar, somewhere.

The notion that some parts of the web standard are pay-to-play is actually not new.

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