Re: [SPAM] Re: What is missing for building "real" services?

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <
> silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Blocking HTTPS makes it impossible to share a Google Docs doc or
> >> > presentation
> >> >
> >> > Look, this is a hard problem, and we've come to a point where use of
> the
> >> > screensharing feature in Chrome requires jumping through a hoop (i.e.
> >> > installing an extension), but not a ridiculously difficult one. I
> >> > suspect
> >> > that web applications will find fairly elegant ways to incorporate
> this
> >> > into
> >> > their flow.
> >>
> >> It's not just the Chrome extension that you need - you will need one
> >> for every browser. Also, what do you do on mobile devices? There is
> >> nothing elegant about installing browser extensions.
> >
> >
> > Developers are pretty good at making do with what is available. I've seen
> > some pretty slick demos that show you can build a nice experience even
> with
> > the current state of affairs.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> WebRTC brings the promise to not have to deal with extensions and
> >> screensharing is a core feature of video conferencing applications. It
> >> just makes no sense to me to ignore this requirement for WebRTC and
> >> push it into a browser extension. It's a step back in technology. I
> >> think we need to think harder about how to solve this problem in a way
> >> that makes it part of the Web platform. I think we've given up too
> >> quickly.
> >
> >
> > I don't think anyone's given up. It's just that it's not the only
> problem to
> > solve right now.
>
> Good to know. I had the impression this far that we had come to a
> conclusion on this and there wasn't going to be any native
> screensharing.
>

Well, probably not in v1. But if we can figure out something clever for v2,
great.

>
> So we can continue the brainstorming.
>
> This far we have the following proposals:
> 1. whitelist HTTP pages, black-out HTTPS pages
> 2. black-out all pages except for thos having a <meta
> name="screensharing" content="allow"/> tag
>
> Silvia.
>