Re: [whatwg] Media sink device selection on <audio>/<video>

Thanks Ian.  I pinged public-media-capture about this and
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25245 is now tracking making
that spec better specified.


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Ami Fischman wrote:
> >
> > Looks like we're back in business:
> >
> > Latest editor's draft:
> > http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html
>
> Thanks.
>
> As a user, this scares me a lot. Why isn't it up to me to control this? I
> don't understand the security model here at all. I don't want random Web
> pages to know that they can pipe audio to the remote speakers in my
> bedroom from my laptop, but if we just expose all the audio output
> devices, that's exactly what will be possible.
>
> Without a much clearer security model, I don't think it's a good idea to
> add any APIs.
>
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