Re: HTML Media Capture draft from Device APIs and Policy Working Group

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> wrote:
> Hi Andrei
>
> Le jeudi 22 juillet 2010 à 09:30 -0700, Jonas Sicking a écrit :
>> > So, you're suggesting an asynchronous MediaFile.getFormatData()
>> > rather than the MediaFile.format attribute?
>>
>> Indeed. Asynch APIs are definitely more painful to use. However
>> authors usually also care about performance, so slow performing UAs
>> are also painful them.
>
> Any feedback on turning the format attribute of the MediaFileData
> interface into a getFormatData() asynchronous call? Is the Android
> browser implementing anything along that line at the moment? Or is it
> only implementing the UI bits?
>

We've only done the UI bits but I guess we'll implement
getFormatData() at some point. Having it asynchronous is fine with us.

Thanks,
Andrei

Received on Wednesday, 4 August 2010 10:07:56 UTC