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

From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:40:47 -0700
Message-ID: <CABcZeBPH=W8n1f9KcBj30bxY-sFfWy5rzFod7EGdkTGpKOj4Zg@mail.gmail.com>
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Cc: Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com>, Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> > It could be, but at the cost of inconveniencing users in the name of
> > specification purity.
>
> navigator.getUserMedia(), unprefixed, never shipped in any
> implementation. Removing it therefore does not inconvenience
> developers. What implementations do with their proprietary
> implementations is up to them. And implementations having proprietary
> implementations should not put pressure on the specification process
> (unless it turns out we have to standardize one of the prefixed
> variants, but that seems unlikely long term).


We've been through this point already, so I'll just briefly repeat my
previous point that there's a difference between accommodating a prefix/
non-prefix versus a totally separate interface style. I realize we disagree
on this point, and I don't expect either of us to convince the other.

-Ekr



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