Re: [Bug 22337] When does the light come on?

Summarizing the thread started by Bug 22337 (when does the light come
on) [1]:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-capture/2014Mar/thread.html#msg94

* it isn't clear whether the spec currently only talks about user-agent
indicators, or also about on-hardware indcators

* there is mild disagreement about how much the spec should say at all
about any of these

* there is no clear proposal as to whether these indicators should
express "in use" or "can be in use"

My (perhaps controversial) proposal is that the spec should remain
silent on the topic of indicators for now (i.e. we should remove the
current text about indicators); as I've said in another thread, UI
considerations are in general better left for implementors to experiment
with, and UI experts are more likely to find the right expression than
spec writers.

That being said, I think it would be useful to explicitly address the 3
states ("can't be used", "can be used", "is used") in the privacy
considerations section of the spec, with some description of the
possible threats mentioned in the thread (e.g. intermittent usage of the
camera to hide its activity from the user).

I can draft a change proposal toward that if this sounds like a
reasonable approach.

Dom


1. https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22337

Received on Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:27:58 UTC