RE: Thoughts on converging MediaStream and Stream objects

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>From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux [mailto:dom@w3.org]
>
>To the risk of starting a bikeshedding discussion, is there a way to
>find a different name for one or the other of the two interfaces, if
>they can't be linked by an inheritance logic? It's very likely to cause
>a lot of confusion if Stream and MediaStream aren't actually strongly
>related.
>
>Would MediaSource work for instance? MediaConduit? MediaChannel?
>
>Or maybe Stream should be StreamedBlob?

Agree that this is a bit confusing, especially because the WebRTC spec calls the MediaStream interface the "Stream API". If the editors want to make a name change now, I’m fine that it, but I don't have any specific preference.

Received on Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:43:07 UTC