Re: [Exposed] attribute on our APIs from Martin Thomson on 2015-05-20 (public-media-capture@w3.org from May 2015)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:22:50 -0700
To: Mathieu Hofman <Mathieu.Hofman@citrix.com>
Cc: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>, "annevk@annevk.nl" <annevk@annevk.nl>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnV_ObSVSmN_gXBwe_VN4SQa9EmxV-jc+gs5i_ELsh1qpA@mail.gmail.com>

On 20 May 2015 at 12:57, Mathieu Hofman <Mathieu.Hofman@citrix.com> wrote:
> While using the `srcObject` is the specified way to attach a MediaStream to a VideoElement, both Firefox and Chrome still support the `createObjectURL` API.
> The generated URL is tied to the domain, and *today* can be used in other windows. Here is a fiddle to show this: http://jsfiddle.net/mhofman/z5ake180/

As Harald says, that wasn't an intended feature.  And it will stop
working in the near future in Firefox.  It doesn't (reliably) work in
Nightly due to changes to our process architecture, though it requires
some changes to hidden configuration to cause a break currently.

Received on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 21:23:18 UTC