- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:43:07 -0700
- To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Cc: "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
On 20 August 2013 01:21, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote: > > Would it make more sense to have a separate "get permissions" call, which > took as argument an explicit enumeration of the kinds of resources the > script wanted (input devices, output devices, cameras, microphones, screen > captures...)? > > Then it would be the job of the UA to figure out how to message the request > for permissions appropriately, and there would only be (at most) one > permissions prompt per origin as long as requested permissions did not > change. > > For backwards compatibility with existing getUserMedia, we could say that > getUserMedia implicitly called "get permissions"(audio if set, video if set) > if "get permissions" hadn't been called before. I don't think so. That sort of permissions model, most notably used in relation to app installation in Android, is fairly widely regarded as a bit of a failure. See for instance: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~afelt/felt-androidpermissions-soups.pdf
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