Chromium Notes: Moonlight vs IcedTea

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91 points·mattyb··6 comments

What a fascinating entry. I absolutely would not want to debug over IRC, and definitely not using gdb. That is some mad skills.

Up one level, BTW, is a discussion about his 20% project at Google working with (or against) clang. Also insightful reading.

For RockMelt (Chromium based), plugins account for 38% of our crashes under Windows and 24% under Mac OS X. Looks like Firefox is similarly afflicted:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox

Somewhat unrelated questions: Anyone know when Moonlight will support Netflix (if ever)?

I don't have any insider info, but just from having followed Miguel's blog for awhile, my impression is that the Netflix stuff is more related to DRM than anything about Moonlight/Silverlight. I believe it boils down to there not being a PlaysForSure (or whatever their DRM is called, hard to keep them all straight they are so similar) implementation available to them, particularly on non-Windows platforms.

While I don't have any intelligent thing to say about Moonlight and Netflix, I did want to point out that Netflix streams to a ton of disparate hardware (and OSes, including "normal" ones such as OSX). Thus, I get the impression this is a legal problem more than a technical one.

FWIW, Microsoft provides a Silverlight runtime for OSX[1]; for embedded streaming I assume they hand out crypto certificates on a case-by-case basis. So yeah, pretty sure it's a legal thing.

[1] although being located outside the US, I can only assume that this is what is used.

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