Re: On Bug 23128 - 'Add an explicit "get access to media" call'

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> On 09/09/2013 04:02 PM, Stefan Håkansson LK wrote:
>> Putting my chair hat on,
>>
>> the discussion regarding adding an explicit "get access to media" call
>> seems to be leaning towards that this is something we should not do.
>>
>> Unless more people speak up saying they want this I will close the bug,
>> with a comment saying there was not support to add this, later this week.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
> Just to say a final word here:
>
> I feel that the arguments put forward by Anne, Robert and Martin are wrong.
> In trying to prevent a particular class of bad application behaviours,
> they are taking away the ability to write good applications that can do
> what's right for the user.
>
> I believe that having the asking for permissions be an action that is
> triggered explicitly by Javascript can give better user interfaces to
> better applications than having the triggering of the same asking for
> permission be implicit in a Javascript action whose purpose is something
> else can.
>
> We're sacrificing the ability to write great applications in order to
> make it harder to write bad ones.
>
> But I accept that my viewpoint, so far, has not found consensus in the
> group, and will accept my chair's decision to close the bug as WONTFIX /
> Working as intended, if that remains the position of the rest of the group.

I have a gut feeling that Harald is correct, but I don't have any data
to make a case yet.

I hope the group will be open to reconsider introducing an explicit JS
permission call in future once we have more experience with the
current interface and whether or not it is sufficient.

Regards,
Silvia.

Received on Monday, 16 September 2013 00:08:45 UTC