Re: Future of SourceType - Call For Consensus?

Yeah, I'm not enthusiastic about this. I'm sensitive to your point about
unused extension points, but seeing as we know we want to do screen
capture, I suggest we just take the opportunity to get that right now.

-Ekr



On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
wrote:

> At the moment, we have 3 bugs that touch on SourceType, listed here:
>
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sourcetype&list_
> id=40270
>
> Reminder: SourceType is this enum:
>
> enum SourceTypeEnum {
>     "none",
>     "camera",
>     "microphone"
> };
>
> At the moment, we have no part of the spec that depends on this - the only
> thing you can do with it is to read the attribute on a track, and ask for
> specific types via a constraint (which is useless for "none", and only has
> a single possible value for video and audio tracks).
>
> It's been suggested as a future extension point (such as specifying "I
> want a screen capture"), but experience with future extension points is
> that it's very easy to get them wrong unless you already know the extension
> you want when you design them.
>
> We've had very little comment on the bugs so far - so I'm trying for a
> call on the list:
>
> ***Proposal: SourceType should be removed from getusermedia version 1.0.***
>
> If we don't hear anyone arguing in favour of keeping it for a week (July
> 11), we'll take that as permission to remove (there's always the
> possibility to reinstate).
>
> If we get arguments ..... we'll take it from there.
>
>        Harald, chair hat on
>
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