Re: Video preview proposal: grabPreview

On 10/27/2014 09:39 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 27 October 2014 07:26, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
>
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> - We're trying to stabilize the spec. This is a new feature.
> Fair point.  I will hold this until the spec is released or something.
> I'm not entirely clear on how you intend to manage the spec.  You
> could freeze out all innovation for some period, I suppose.  Maybe you
> can articulate your plan.
>
>> - It introduces a normative dependency on imagecapture, which still has
>> some time to go.
> Yeah, that much was clear when I put this together.
>
>> One thing that it does as a side effect is to change the type of API of
>> MediaDeviceInfo from "dictionary" to "interface". If we make this
>> change, it becomes simple to add that type of functionality in the
>> future - but at the price of not being able to assure people that "this
>> is a dictionary".
> I don't think that is a problem.
>
It might be an opportunity.... if we only add this change, it becomes
easy to add the spec you have proposed as an extension spec rather than
part of getusermedia, just like screencapture.

I don't think it's quite that simple to add it later if we keep the
dictionary.


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Received on Monday, 27 October 2014 17:09:41 UTC