Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C
►https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standards
The W3C has ceded control of the “user agent” (the term for a Web browser in W3C parlance) to a third-party, the content distributor. That breaks a—perhaps until now unspoken—assurance about who has the final say in your Web experience, and indeed who has ultimate control over your computing device.