Re: Object/method spellings for media stream recorder

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Greg Billock <gbillock@google.com> wrote:

> I've started laying out the IDL for the recorder in Blink. Something I'm
> finding is that it looks like the Mozilla implementation is using slightly
> different names than the spec:
>
>
> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a8daa428ccbc/dom/webidl/MediaRecorder.webidl
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-mediastream-recording-20130205/#MediaRecorderAPI
>
> Specifically, it looks like in Firefox the object is named
> "MediaRecorder", and the method you use to begin recording is "start()".
> The spec names these "MediaStreamRecorder" and "record()".
>

The spec name is "MediaRecorder". I prefer that, but it's not a big deal
either way IMHO.

Personally, I like "MediaStreamRecorder" due to the better consistency with
> other WebRTC class names. I prefer "start()" to "record()" because of
> "stop()".
>

I agree. Let's change the name in the spec :-).

These aren't big points, but lets make sure we get the implementations and
> spec matched up. Was there discussion on changing these names to the
> Firefox vocabulary, and it hasn't made it to the spec yet? Or perhaps there
> are other aliasing docs in Firefox that make the vocabulary the same as the
> spec, and the IDL I linked is the result of correspondence to a previous
> draft?
>

I'm not sure how we ended up in this state. We'll definitely fix it one way
or another.

Rob
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