Re: [mediacapture-screen-share] Multi-capture (concurrent capture of multiple surfaces) (#204)

@jan-ivar:

My previous comment dealt with the technical details raised in your previous comment. I'm posting a separate comment here to address what I see as a **severe methodological issue**, which has played itself out with minor variations over multiple proposals during the passing year.

I have presented a set of use-cases for which we have genuine Web-developer interest and need (some examples already in the thread, and possibly more to come). I have presented a general approach to address these use-cases, which yields an improvement over existing mechanisms (getDisplayMedia). That is, I am offering incremental advancement of the Web platform - the explicit purpose of the W3C.

Let's examine your response, both in this thread as well as during the [interim meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DinqwJ4fyrU):
* You have pointed out that the existing solution (getDisplayMedia) is partially viable. Okay, so...? We are here in order to make incremental improvements to the Web platform.
* You have pointed out yet more use-cases that would not be served by my API. Generic use-cases without clear Web-developer support. Okay, so...? No API can hope to address every single conceivable use-case. If you want to address additional use cases, we should iterate, not abort.

This is not conducive to progress. I hope that we can address this, so that we my be more productive over the upcoming year.

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