Re: What happened to onaddstream?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> On 06/22/2015 10:11 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>
> On 23 Jun 2015 5:38 am, "Harald Alvestrand" <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/22/2015 06:20 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
>>>
>>> It's gone from the spec.  Everyone implements it.  It would seem to be
>>> necessary to document it, even if it is only under a "legacy" heading.
>>>
>> It went away when addStream() went away.
>>
>> Instead we have a "track" event that carries an RTCTrackEventInit,
>> containing a receiver, a track and an array of streams (section 5.4).
>>
>> It might be nice to have a separate "stream" event that fires only when a
>> new stream has been created; I don't think it's trivial to shim the "stream"
>> event based on only the information in "track" events.
>
> Widely implemented browser APIs like this shouldn't just disappear from the
> spec, especially if it's hard to shim it. I'm supportive of getting it back.
>
> Silvia.
>
> I've filed https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-pc/issues/245 to track the issue.
>
> The http://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/archives/20150202/webrtc.html version of
> the spec was the last time it was specified.


The last WD at http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/ still has it, too.

S.

Received on Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:36:17 UTC