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

On 2014-05-13 17:28, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
> 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
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> * it isn't clear whether the spec currently only talks about user-agent
> indicators, or also about on-hardware indcators
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> * there is mild disagreement about how much the spec should say at all
> about any of these
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> * 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.

This sounds like a reasonable approach to me.

>
> Dom
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> 1. https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22337
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Received on Wednesday, 14 May 2014 14:24:35 UTC