Re: gUM's optional constraints algorithm penalizes user-choice chasing best-match for webpage from Martin Thomson on 2013-08-31 (public-webrtc@w3.org from August 2013)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:26:52 -0700
To: Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com>
Cc: "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnUHJFA=q=nC-e2hG4Qao_33-XgW6joaQbFD+OX8o+AMYg@mail.gmail.com>

On 31 August 2013 00:43, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <jib@mozilla.com> wrote:
> The reason this works is that our (unchanged) core "remove-from-list"
> algorithm ignores zero-reducing optional constraints, which makes it more
> lenient the smaller the starting set is.

I'd go even further and not remove anything that is marked with an
optional constraint.  I'd use optional constraints to select a
default, and maybe to order sources.

But I'm still a constraint-skeptic.  Feel free to ignore me, I'm
clearly not in the consensus on this one.

Received on Saturday, 31 August 2013 17:27:20 UTC