bugmen0t
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The canonical URL for how the address bar short cuts is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
Do you end up as someone pairing socks again or do you throw away half of your socks?
This should be somewhat easy to start and self-contained. If you want, you can easily extend it if you want things to become more fancy. E.g., hiding the secret constant. Implementing a challenge response protocol, limiting access to other global state (hardware dongle? ip address?) and so on.
You'll find that it is unnecessarily and necessarily complex unless you adopt a framework that makes design decisions for you.
There was a strong and long debate about the pros and cons. One of the strongest argument against was this here, including interoperability. I believe Cory Doctorow has also written multiple articles against DRM. I agree that DRM is generally bad.
However, the arguments for implementing it were the following: at least two other browsers will adopt the tech and that will allow it (per W3C process) to graduate from a Candidate Recommendation to a full Recommendation, making it part of the web platform.
On top, what would it mean for marketshare if people had to install a second browser just for watching movies? Would the non technical users accept and understand this without switching to a browser that they’d consider "actually feature complete"?