Re: Initial draft of mediacapture-output spec posted from Martin Thomson on 2014-12-18 (public-media-capture@w3.org from December 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:14:49 -0800
To: Philippe Joseph Cohen <philc@audyx.com>
Cc: Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnUb7LpJ7ObaECEKwg1S4hXOrZETTos76MpAqysb7iakBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 18 December 2014 at 08:26, Philippe Joseph Cohen <philc@audyx.com> wrote:
>> If I understand correctly, this only makes sense in browsers that have
>> non-persistent permissions.  Persistent permissions, from my
>> understanding, turn any grant into universal access.
>
> This is not clear to me. Persistent permissions are per authenticated origins so users won’t grant twice the same site for the same permission. Did I misunderstood you?

As I understand it, if you have two microphones, you can grant one-off
access to either and the other one will not be available to the site.
However, if you grant a persistent permission, the site can access
either camera without a dialog.

I'm not sure that this is a great outcome, but the alternative is far
more complicated and it's not clear that it would be any better.

Received on Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:15:16 UTC