- From: cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org>
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:20:58 -0500
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
On 09/12/2013 5:02 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: > On 9 December 2013 13:44, cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> wrote: >> Who throw an error on unknown constraints? ConstraintSet.set() or >> getUserMedia()? I'd prefer the former (fail as early as possible) but I'm >> curious what you were thinking. > You don't get the former sadly. Since ConstraintSet is generic (you > can see this from its name), it can't know where it is going to be > applied until it actually is applied. > >> How do we support forward-compatibility? I didn't see you mention a >> getSupportedConstraints() method or something similar. > I imagine that having an exception thrown is a good way to learn that > something is not supported. That's less necessary with this. That > said, I'm not against it either. It's not quite interface cruft. I'm +1 for this proposal if you add getSupportedConstraints(). The general consensus seems to be that exceptions shouldn't be used to drive normal program flow: http://stackoverflow.com/q/729379/14731 "Exceptions are reserved for exceptional cases." :) Gili
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