Netflix Ditches Silverlight For HTML5 On Macs 202
An anonymous reader writes "Netflix yesterday furthered its plans to ditch Silverlight for HTML5 on Macs, having already done so last year in IE11 on Windows 8.1. HTML5 video is now supported by Netflix in Safari on OS X Yosemite, meaning you can stream your favorite movies and TV shows without having to install any plugins."
Courtesy of encrypted media extensions.
Linux soon? (Score:5, Insightful)
So presumably, Firefox will bring Netflix to Linux as well [mozilla.org]. While I can't say I'm happy to see DRM, I'm happier to be able to play the content than not be able to, and I don't think not including support for broadly-used technologies is going to win any wars.
Re: They've been doing this for a year (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:no plugins? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's still a binary blob that has to do some function that is not covered by any standard. Calling it by a different name or pretending that such plugins are part of the official standard doesn't really change anything.
You still need a platform specific binary blob.
saves battery (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Linux soon? (Score:5, Insightful)