Re: Call for Adoption: Region Capture specification

The mediacapture-extensions repo has been used as a dumping ground for bugs
related to things that were extensions but not W3C documents before.


On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 9:43 AM Youenn Fablet <youenn@apple.com> wrote:

> I am not sure where I should file these issues given this is a process
> issue: the proposed document (region capture) cannot be used as is on top
> of any agreed W3C WG document.
> If I were to implement Region Capture today, web developers could not use
> it directly, they would need more than that.
> This makes it very hard to reason about the proposal, see how much it fits
> in practice, whether it is valuable to have a generic mechanism...
>
> Hence why I think it would be best to work on these preliminary items (in
> particular capture handle) and reassess the region capture proposal
> accordingly.
> Or to merge region capture with capture handle until we have a good
> understanding of getViewPortMedia.
>
> As I said before, I think it is valuable to solve this problem and the
> WebRTC WG is probably the right place for this to happen.
> I’ll write some thoughts about how cropping could be done for
> getDisplayMedia in an already filed issue:
> https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-screen-share/issues/195.
>
> On 10 Dec 2021, at 20:27, Elad Alon <eladalon@google.com> wrote:
>
> Youenn, would you mind filing issues
> <https://github.com/eladalon1983/region-capture/issues> for your concerns
> so that we might continue the discussion as per the process outlined in
> Bernard's original email? ("I object to adoption of Region Capture, due to
> issues filed in open bug <#number>")
>
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 6:52 PM Tim Panton <tim@pi.pe> wrote:
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>> I support adoption of the Region Capture specification as a WEBRTC WG
>> work item.
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>> I can see Immediate uses for this spec.
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>> I do however think that the final version may differ from the current
>> document  in significant ways.
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>> Tim.
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