Re: [mediacapture-screen-share] Provide a means to select only part of a screen to capture (#105)

> Have you tried "Take a Screenshot" at Firefox Devloper Tools? That is what am asking to be specified as part of mediacapture-screen-share. Is there a compelling reason such functionality should not be specified?

I still don't see mediacapture-screen-share as a screenshot API, which makes me reluctant to add any language advising the browser to that it must or even should have this type of a picker. I'm not saying there aren't any use cases for capturing part of a screen, but I'm not compelled that we should attempt to mandate this, and as-is browsers are allowed to implement such a picker.

If this use case was more compelling for getDisplayMedia then I do think we should advise implementations so that you don't end up having to do cropping as part of the application depending on whether or not the browser supported cropping, but again this is not the intent of getDisplayMedia, and I think it is within the browser's decision about what UI to support.

For what you're asking I would like to see a different API than getDisplayMedia.

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