- From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:41:36 +0100
- To: "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
- Cc: mlamouri@google.com, "public-webappsec@w3.org" <public-webappsec@w3.org>
These updates have now been pushed to the PR.
Den 27. jan. 2016 12:11, skrev Harald Alvestrand:
> Hi,
>
> some time ago I made my proposal for MediaCapture permissions into a
> pull request here:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/permissions/pull/57
>
> I've had some dialogue with Mounir about it afterwards (partly in the
> PR), and I intend to make the following updates:
>
> - Delete the "all-*" variants of permissions
> - Add a new meaning to the descriptor: If there's no device in it, it
> means "any"
> - Add a new value for the descriptor: If the device is "*", it means "all".
>
> Thus, you could say
>
> navigator.permissions.query({name:'camera'}).then(function(result)) {
> if (result.state == 'granted') {
> // I know I can request "any camera" and get something, if any
> cameras exist
>
> navigator.permissions.query({name:'camera', deviceId='*'}).then(
> if (result.state == 'granted') {
> // I know I have access to all cameras that exist
>
> navigator.permissions.query({name:'camera', deviceId='abcdef'}).then(
> if (result.state == 'granted') {
> // I know I have access to the specific camera with id 'abcdef'
>
> Does this make sense to people?
> (I'm not 100% sold on the usefulness of the '*' device ID myself...)
>
> Since this crosses two WGs, perhaps comments on the PR itself is easiest.
>
> Harald
>
Received on Wednesday, 27 January 2016 12:42:18 UTC