Re: Connecting devices and tracks

On 9 November 2013 13:34, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> One property this has is that the sequence of entries in "devices"
> controls the selection of device; in the original constraint-based
> selection algorithm, the device that satisfied the longest list of
> optional constraints would "win".
>
> Perhaps we should think of adding a "rankOnConstraints" function to
> deviceInfo?

The code was provided merely to be illustrative.  My expectation is
that browsers will use their greater access to information about
devices to do a much better job of implementing gUM.  Adding more info
to the API just increases the fingerprinting surface.  I'd argue that
the ranking probably wouldn't do any good, though a stable ordering
might.

Received on Sunday, 10 November 2013 01:31:26 UTC