Re: [mediacapture-region] Should generation of CropTarget from elements be able to fail? (#48)

> Specs inform implementation, not the other way around.

It is useful for specifications to **reflect abiding reality**. This serves Web developers. Developers often read these specs too, and who often treat these specs as authoritative.

As for "**abiding**":
* It is likely that some Element subtypes will be rejected for the foreseeable future. (And time will tell if this is a pattern common to multiple UAs.)
* It is also likely that occasionally, a new subtype will be introduced. Whichever UA-implementation team adds that subtype, might not have as a high priority to ensure cropping works for that new subtype. Note that this is likely for any UA, and not just Chrome.

> In any case, I agree it is out of scope here, so please open a separate issue.

I think the two issues are highly correlated, and revolve around whether the spec should specify that, **in reality**, the user agent may fail the process, and that spec authors accept this reality.

-- 
GitHub Notification of comment by eladalon1983
Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-region/issues/48#issuecomment-1136015111 using your GitHub account


-- 
Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config

Received on Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:37:48 UTC