Re: Call for Consensus (CfC) on Intent to discontinue work on Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions from Harald Alvestrand on 2022-01-24 (public-webrtc@w3.org from January 2022)

From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:03:18 +0100
To: public-webrtc@w3.org
Message-ID: <ae4454ac-ebe3-fef5-d27a-eb392c7864e8@alvestrand.no>

On 1/19/22 13:38, Kostiainen, Anssi wrote:
>> On 18. Jan 2022, at 8.53, Youenn Fablet <youenn@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> I also wonder whether there is something that we have learned from this that we could reapply to face detection and general per frame processing.
> That’s a good question we should ask more often.
>
> I think one learning from the spec authoring-land is that the constraints model requires multiple, almost identical Web IDL dictionary definitions. This repetitive boilerplate makes the specs less readable, I think. It also makes authoring more error-prone.
>
This is a weakness of WebIDL that we have been complaining about ever 
since we invented constraints.... doesn't seem to help.

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