Unsure about the IETF and WHATWG, but if at all, they'll be better than the W3C. The W3C was, and still is, a group co-opted by GAFAM to essentially make the web as hard as possible to implement so that only big corpo can "do it correctly", and they brought us wondrful features such as literally DRM in the HTML Standard.

To this day the W3C is one of the big reason the internet doesn't progress.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

ActivityPub, aka the Fediverse, aka the open social web, aka what powers Piefed, is created, built by and built into the web, run by the W3C.

So while I agree that DRM sucks being built into the web, I disagree W3C is controlled by GAFAM. With DRM the W3C's point was that everyone is doing it anyway at least we can have a standard way to doing it, making it easier for ends users to not have to jump through some new hoop and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren't excluded.

Big Tech do plenty of awful things we can give them direct credit for. W3C isn't really one of them.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren't excluded.

aren't they? last time I checked any browser on linux had artificial problems with playing DRM content from streaming platforms

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Steaming platforms have worked for quite a while in Linux. Been a while since I had Netflix, but it worked just fine when I did. Disney+ and Hulu work.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

linux users are allowed to watch the show in compressed 720p. that's it.