Re: Can getUserMedia() get called on a callback/event ? from Martin Thomson on 2015-04-08 (public-webrtc@w3.org from April 2015)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:34:05 -0700
To: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>
Cc: "Cullen Jennings (fluffy)" <fluffy@cisco.com>, "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnVXPDEFu6qjeBrHd_XNrJP5d-EZMt6OKvYnKXLw8pRXwA@mail.gmail.com>

On 8 April 2015 at 04:17, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> Really, still I don't understand how the apprtc demo of Google works
> given that it automatically prompts the user for getUserMedia without
> the need for the user to click in any button. Where is the trick? Does
> it work if the JS lib calls gUM even before the DOM is load? but it
> would fail if it waits for DOM "load" event, right? This is a no sense
> IMHO.


It works because the gUM prompt is not conditional on an engagement gesture.

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