Re: Status of Promise's in gUM discussion

Stefan,

I don't think this is an accurate summary of the situation.

When I proposed the compromise in your CfC, it was intended as a package
deal.
I certainly am not OK with moving to promises on these APIs without a
backward
compatibility story as well. I suspect that others feel the same.

If you want to declare consensus on just the points you have here, you need
to do a separate consensus call on adding promises *regardless* of backwards
compatibility.

-Ekr


On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK <
stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com> wrote:

> Based on the feedback given to the Strawman consensus position mail [1],
> it seems that there is clear consensus to move to promises for
>
> * navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia
> * applyConstraints
> * enumerateDevices
>
> and we think the editors can start updating the draft to reflect this.
>
> The discussion has not really settled on how to handle backwards
> compatibility with the callbacks based getUserMedia call on navigator.
> We'll see if any consensus can be discerned in the coming couple of
> days, if not we'll take a chair's decision on this part.
>
> Stefan for the chairs
>
>
> [1]
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-capture/2014Oct/0033.html
>
>