- From: Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:16:15 +0000
- To: "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
Back in the fall of 2014 Martin proposed a way to enable, without asking for user consent to use cameras, the application to present a still image of what every camera the UA can access views [1]. The proposal did not get much traction back then. However, a recent Issue [2] points out that the introduction of navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices may have changed the situation a bit. In essence, [2] points out that if the user allows an app to use a camera but later (in many situation probably more or less immediately) realizes it was the wrong camera and wants to change, the user would have to go through a second permission prompt (at least for some UAs). [1] in combination with navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices would improve the situation by allowing the app to present images showing the view of all cameras, thus allowing the user to select the right camera directly. The question to the TF is: given the changed situation, should we reconsider, and add [1] to mediacapture-main? Stefan PS Other thoughts/ideas on how to address the issue described in [2] are of course also welcome [1] https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-main/pull/45 [2] https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-main/issues/304
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