Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by JoshTriplett 3006 days ago
> WebDRM, WebAssembly

Those two things are nothing like each other. EME, the DRM mechanism, should never have existed, should certainly never have been "standardized" (to the extent that concept even makes sense for a feature that fundamentally exists to glue in perpetually non-standard proprietary plugins), and it's debatable whether more harm than good was done by Firefox trying to make sure people didn't have to switch browsers to run Netflix.

WebAssembly, on the other hand, is one of the most exciting technologies to come to the web in a long time.