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Hopefully this takes us one step closer to Netflix on Linux

• valarauca1 12y ago
  pipelight gets us there. We'll never a libre solution for netflix video on linux, because now its in the W3C standard.
  • Touche 12y ago
    One would assume they'll stop supporting the Silverlight version once all the major browser vendors support the DRM.
    • valarauca1 12y ago
      Eh they'll likely have to keep silverlight as a fallback for at-least half a decade.
      • Touche 12y ago
        A fallback for what, exactly? Once IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari support it, that's all they care about. I think they're more likely to drop old-IE than the typical webapp.
        • valarauca1 12y ago
          >A fallback for what, exactly? IE, Chrome, and Firefox users who haven't updated their browser.
        • wjoe 12y ago
          IE11 only works on Windows 7/8, and OS X 10.10 is only supported by Macs up to about 5 years old. Even then, a lot of people don't actually keep their OS/browsers up to date. I expect Netflix's demographics are quite broad, and probably still quite a lot of people on XP and 5+ year old computers. There's not really any reason for them to drop support for Silverlight, they'll probably just keep new features for the HTML5 player.
      • eyko 12y ago
        Could they go with flash? I can't believe I'm asking for this, but at least that would work on Linux without much hassle (pipelight is 32bit and I don't really want to go there).