- From: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:42:10 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, public-device-apis@w3.org, Ben Murdoch <benm@google.com>
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:22:32 +0100, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com> wrote: >> > One reason for this separation is that we want to leave the <input> >> > tag for form submission. This is all fine but, at the same time, there >> > are use cases where an application may want a static image from the >> > camera but may not want to submit any form. So, in such a case, we are >> > after all misusing the <input> tag? >> >> I do not think we should view it that way. Nowadays there are many >> applications that use <input> without the associated submission semantics it >> gets when embedded in <form>. >> >> The difference with <device> here is that you cannot meaningfully integrate it >> with the <form> submission model so it makes sense to completely separate it. > > Right. > Ok, I see. >> > If I understand the example correctly, the video element will show the >> > output of the user's camera (i.e. act as an embedded camera viewport). >> > To be able to implement video chat, we also need a way to see the >> > remote party, so we need a way to send the Stream over to some server. >> > I think we should specify the mechanism for doing that (e.g. >> > WebSockets::send(Stream stream)). >> >> I believe this is the plan yes, if the general proposal can be made to work. > > Indeed. The problem is that this requires a chosen codec, and we don't > have one. That's why I stopped where I did. > Perhaps I am missing something, but this requirement isn't entirely obvious to me :) Why do we need to agree on a codec any more than we needed for the <video> tag? I agree that it would be ideal if we did but, based on previous experience, that seems unlikely to happen. Thanks, Andrei
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