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SE Radio 686: François Daoust on W3C

SE Radio 686: François Daoust on W3C

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers vor 11 Monaten

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François Daoust, W3C staff member and co-chair
of the Web Developer Experience Community Group, discusses the
origins of the W3C, the browser standardization process, and how
it relates to other organizations like TC39, WHATWG, and IETF.
This episode covers a lot of ground, including funding through
memberships, royalty-free patent access for implementations, why
implementations are built in parallel with the specifications,
why requestVideoFrameCallback doesn't have a formal
specification, balancing functionality with privacy, working
group participants, and how certain organizations have more
power.

François explains why the W3C hasn't specified a video or audio
codec, and discusses Media Source Extensions, Encrypted Media
Extensions and Digital Rights Management (DRM), closed source
content decryption modules such as Widevine and PlayReady, which
ship with browsers, and informing developers about which features
are available in browsers.

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