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Re: ICECandidate.candidate syntax is wrong in Chrome

From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:14:27 -0700
Message-ID: <CABcZeBP3tV1mTL-Ohyx6eniKbcSfWZsNdEyTxYL3r__q2oN8VA@mail.gmail.com>
To: Philipp Hancke <fippo@goodadvice.pages.de>
Cc: "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
This seems like a not-unreasonable argument for changing the API
(though I think there are some obvious counterarguments was well).
However, it's not much of an argument that Firefox should ignore the
clear specification language.

-Ekr



On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Philipp Hancke <fippo@goodadvice.pages.de>
wrote:

> Am 23.06.2014 17:20, schrieb Adam Roach:
>
>  On 6/23/14 09:32, Emil Ivov wrote:
>>
>>> Personally I thought it was an oversight in the FF implementation
>>>
>>
>> No; starting with the W3C spec (because we're talking about a JS API
>> here), we reached the same conclusion as IƱaki did, using the same
>> (rather obvious) chain of logic. It is most assuredly not an oversight,
>> as we've had to take extra steps to process the candidates that Chrome
>> generates:
>>
>
> Do you have a pointer to that rationale?
>
> I have a lib that translates SDP and candidates into JSON and back.
> With just the candidate-attribute I have to parse two variants (easy) and
> serialize two variants as well.
> When constructing a an SDP that goes into SetLocalDescription or
> SetRemoteDescription, I need a SDP line.
> For addIceCandidate, I don't.
>
>
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