Re: Allow page to designate itself as presentation session

Hi Francois,

I think allowing to join the remote presentations started by means other
than the Presentation API should be allowed by the spec.
This is somewhat similar to how YouTube/Netflix works already on PS3, Roku
and XBox 360: user has to launch the app via the remote/gamepad first and
then it can be discovered and controlled by the YouTube/Netflix Android/iOS
app using DIAL.

I'm not sure how the page that's willing to be a presentation should
advertise that via the spec. Any ideas? Some meta tag/manifest value?

Thanks,
Anton.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Louay and I chatted a bit about the following possibility a couple of
> weeks ago and I don't remember having seen it mentioned on the
> mailing-list, so here it goes.
>
> In essence, once we add the possibility to join an existing session or
> resume a connection to a running presentation session through a call to
> "joinSession", it seems natural to add some way for a page to advertise
> itself as a running presentation session, to avoid having to call
> "startSession" altogether.
>
> A typical use case:
> "A user starts an application on her Smart TV that displays family
> pictures and videos in the background. While the application runs, her
> child opens the application on his tablet, joins the running presentation
> application on the Smart TV and adds pictures and comments to the
> slideshow."
>
> The Presentation API enables the above scenario... provided the user
> starts the Smart TV application from another device in the first place.
> Said differently, the Presentation API enables more complex scenarios
> (Smart TV + controlling device) to create sessions, which is good, but not
> the more simple one (Smart TV only), which seems a bit awkward.
>
> Or perhaps this could actually already be handled at the UA level: if the
> UA detects code in a Web app that e.g. listens to presentation session
> connections, it could perhaps offer an option on the UA's user interface to
> start the session directly (with a choice that says "and do that
> automatically next time the app starts").
>
> What do you think?
>
> Francois.
>
>
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