Re: [Bug 23128] Add an explicit "get access to media" call

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>wrote:

> To be a little more explicit: If prompting for permission to access the
> camera is bad, our current approach where we prompt for permission to
> access the camera is bad.
>

I think the current permission prompt is tolerable because the prompt
appears when the app calls getUserMedia to start using the device.
Therefore it is very likely the prompt will appear at the time the user
initiates whatever app feature requires the camera or microphone --- and
will not appear at all if the user doesn't activate such features.

Thus, in my view, the first paragraph of
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23128 is a good thing, not a
problem, and the ability to obtain "the full range of permissions that a
page would want" arbitrarily far ahead of actually using those permission
would be an antifeature, and significantly worse than the permission
prompts we currently have.

 Rob
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