Re: [html-media-capture] No facing mode for microphone when capturing audio

Thanks for the issue. Even if the devices in the market today do not (commonly^) have multiple built-in microphones, it does not mean there wouldn't be such devices in the future. To future-proof the API, the [preferred facing mode][1] concept was specified to scale to microphones as well using the [media capture mechanism][2] abstraction.

(^Already today, one can add additional microphones via USB.)

This informative text in the said example:

>(without preferred facing mode defined, falls back to the implementation-specific default facing mode)

Maps back to this normative statement:

>The missing value default is the implementation-specific state.

I suggest no changes to the spec needed.

[1]: https://w3c.github.io/html-media-capture/#dfn-preferred-facing-mode
[2]: https://w3c.github.io/html-media-capture/#dfn-media-capture-mechanism

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Received on Thursday, 6 April 2017 12:07:30 UTC