- From: Harald Alvestrand via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:04:56 +0000
- To: public-media-capture-logs@w3.org
Information that may matter: At the moment, the permissions spec has mutated to say that the result of reading a permission is "the UA's current understanding of the user's intent" - there is no restriction on how the UA gathers information about the user's intent, and there is no guarantee for persistence - this is an UA matter. The only guarantee of consistency is that if a query is re-tried, and the UA has no new information about the user's intent, the same value is returned. The spec says "This is intentionally vague about the details of the permission UI and how the UA infers user intent. UAs should be able to explore lots of UI within this framework." If we choose alternative 2, we relax the constraints on implementations here a bit. Note: In a conversation with Jeffrey Yaskin this week, he suggested that we could describe the device access permissions as "stronger" than list-devices - that is, it's in the spec that the permission is granted whenever a device access is granted, but the spec will also permit list-devices when there's no device open if that's taken to be the user's intent. This makes fewer guarantees about behavior than previously. It might make sense. -- GitHub Notification of comment by alvestrand Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-main/issues/380#issuecomment-240928800 using your GitHub account
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