yeah but so? from my read-through, its not literally "save the one and only firefox", its "we need an environment that allows for other browsers to enter the field" which DRM prevents
Does EME prevent new browsers from implementing it freely. I admit I haven't read the spec but from what I've read second-hand, it seems like it enables the vendor to ship the DRM code as a binary blob that runs natively in a sandbox.
As I understand, EME doesn't lockout new browsers, it locks out new architectures and kernels. But any new architecture that comes along that anyone would want to use to view DRM-encumbered media would be mainstream enough that content providors would support it, and people running an experimental OS kernel already have to use a more traditional system for a lot of things, and probably aren't a demographic too keen on DRM in the first place.
EME doesn't prevent browsers from implementing EME. But since EME doesn't describe how the browser should talk to the CDM (just how scripts on a page talk to the browser), implementing EME is not useful in terms of working with actual CDMs that exist in the real world...
ctrl+f for "What does this mean for downstream users of the Firefox code base?"
tl;dr you either need to run a mozilla-built sandbox with no modifications, or literally call up adobe and ask about being given a CDM for your own browser, which they might just scoff at
It really should be "Save Mozilla", not Save Firefox. After all, it was Mozilla that changed the web. We should all be using SeaMonkey, or some other coherent suite.
