Re: getCapabilities() as both static and object method? from Jan-Ivar Bruaroey on 2014-05-15 (public-media-capture@w3.org from May 2014)

From: Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 20:35:52 -0400
To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, public-media-capture@w3.org
Message-ID: <53740BE8.4000503@mozilla.com>

On 5/13/14 3:41 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> The need as identified  is to know what constraints are recognized by
> the platform before calling getUserMedia (that is, before we have any
> instances to call the function on).

Would this method return just the constraint names understood by this UA or actual values?

If the latter, what values? Some union (or intersection?) of all camera capabilities on a user's system?

getUserMedia is prescriptive, and unknown mandatory constraints fail, so I don't see why we need this method.

.: Jan-Ivar :.

Received on Thursday, 15 May 2014 00:36:23 UTC