Re: Strawman Promises consensus position, based on Thursday's telechat

On 10/3/14, 6:00 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
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> In the version of getusermedia that gets sent out for Last Call, we 
> make the following changes:
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>     navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia gets changed to return a promise.
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>  *
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>     applyConstraint returns a promise.
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>  *
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>     enumerateDevices returns a promise.
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>  *
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>     navigator.getUserMedia has callbacks
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>     We do not re-discuss whether or not to remove
>     navigator.getUserMedia from the spec in the foreseeable future (2
>     years?)
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> *

I can live with it.

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> <<< note: I*'**m not sure if the next piece belongs or not. It serves 
> to make the definition complete,
> and was certainly described in Jan-Ivar's slides. Comments welcome. >>>
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> The definition of navigator.getUserMedia in the spec will be that it 
> will behave exactly like:
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> navigator.prototype.getUserMedia = function(constraints, success, 
> failure) {
>   var p = navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(constraints);
>   p.then(success, failure);
> }
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> *

Yes that matches the prose [1] in the pull request fwiw.

PS: Not to sway anyone's opinion or anything, but I just learned that 
iOS8 supports promises.

.: Jan-Ivar :.

[1] 
http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jan-ivar/mediacapture-main/compromises/getusermedia.html#methods-3
[2] http://readwrite.com/2014/10/02/html5-apple-ios-8-wkwebview