Sort out active state spec inconsistencies

Hi

We have some inconsistencies in the spec regarding the active state.

We define active in terms of the stream's track set. In short, if a 
non-ended track exists, the stream is active, otherwise inactive.

The active attribute is specified to return true if the stream is active 
and false otherwise.

We also specify that when a stream goes from active, to inactive, the 
active attribute should be updated to true and the event fired. This 
contradicts the other text that defines the attribute in terms of the 
stream's track set.

Possible solutions:

1. Just remove the attribute updating part of the event dispatching steps.

Since the events are scheduled and fired as a result of sync API calls, 
we might en up in a situation that an "active" event is fired, but 
that's not true (anymore).

2. Remove the attribute updating part of the event dispatching and use a 
activitychanged event instead of specific active/inactive events.

This way when a scheduled event fires, the script needs to check the 
attribute manually and react. We never get the "event type" - "attribute 
value" mismatch.

3. Remove the active/inactive events all together.

These events are rather unnecessary. They either follow direct 
manipulation from the script or some other event when the UA has 
initiated a the result of a change to a stream's track set. For example 
the add/removetrack events or MediaStreamTrack ended.

/Adam

Received on Tuesday, 17 November 2015 10:19:28 UTC