Re: Screen sharing function name from Harald Alvestrand on 2015-02-10 (public-media-capture@w3.org from February 2015)

From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:57:40 +0100
To: public-media-capture@w3.org
Message-ID: <54D9F234.1060200@alvestrand.no>

On 02/09/2015 11:22 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 10 February 2015 at 04:28, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com> wrote:
>> getX and requestY?  Why not just use "get" for both, ie getScreenShare()?
>
> Because one can have a persistent grant and can thus be a simple
> retrieval operation.  The other is always a request.
>
Did I miss something?

I don't see that in the current specification
(http://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-screen-share/#security-and-permissions).

In particular, I would be surprised to see an application running with 
elevated permissions (I translate this mentally to "installed 
application", but I guess that's only one instance of such things) cause 
an user interaction request before grabbing a surface.

Harald

Received on Tuesday, 10 February 2015 11:58:11 UTC