- From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:53:05 +0100
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- CC: Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
On 02/11/2014 06:08 AM, Martin Thomson wrote: > On 10 February 2014 19:24, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote: >> I don't find the ask-inspect-reject pattern either simpler or more natural. > I think that you are misinterpreting here. The point was that without > a user-prompt, we could just make the device parameters available to > the application. The application could peruse the menu and determine > if anything suited it. > > Now, I don't like where this is going. I don't feel like we'd be > doing anyone a favour if the permissions prompt were to disappear. > That said, I could certainly see my way to having more information > available to an application. > > That doesn't help much with the whole contention resolution problem. > But I'm increasingly of the opinion that sharing control of a device > is foolish. Sharing access, perhaps, but I'm not sure who wins when > control is shared. > > Meta-comment: Where the hell is this discussion going? We were > talking about mandatory restrictions, and now it's veered into user > consent land again. I don't feel like any actual progress is being > made in any direction. At least it started with something > approximating a concrete proposal. It started out with a review of the current proposal for the writeup of the constraint mechanism. So far, we've had a lot of discussion (mainly among J-I, roc and myself) about whether it's worth abstracting that away from the use case it was originally created for (getUserMedia, where I think we have rough consensus to keep it more or less exactly as-is), and whether it makes sense to extend usage to other areas, but very little comment that is useful to the editors on the proposal itself. Thus far, I don't see a reason to make any change to the document (the text that's actually in the document) based on this discussion. -- Surveillance is pervasive. Go Dark.
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