Re: HTML Media Capture draft from Device APIs and Policy Working Group from Dominique Hazael-Massieux on 2010-08-04 (public-html@w3.org from August 2010)

From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:31:55 +0200
To: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-device-apis@w3.org" <public-device-apis@w3.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Message-ID: <1280914315.2282.3911.camel@localhost>

Hi Andrei

Le jeudi 22 juillet 2010 à 09:30 -0700, Jonas Sicking a écrit :
> > So, you're suggesting an asynchronous MediaFile.getFormatData() 
> > rather than the MediaFile.format attribute?
>
> Indeed. Asynch APIs are definitely more painful to use. However
> authors usually also care about performance, so slow performing UAs
> are also painful them.

Any feedback on turning the format attribute of the MediaFileData
interface into a getFormatData() asynchronous call? Is the Android
browser implementing anything along that line at the moment? Or is it
only implementing the UI bits?

Dom

Received on Wednesday, 4 August 2010 09:32:09 UTC