[whatwg] Do we really need to introduce a <device> element for giving access to webcams and mikes?

[Julien Cayzac]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Julien Cayzac <julien.cayzac at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if I get your point here: are you saying that using the
> webcam locally in a canvas and somehow transmitting the webcam video
> over the network are two independent permissions to grant? If so, how
> would you detect the latter, since by allowing the page to manipulate
> the video in <canvas> you would give it permission to use toDataURL()
> too, so it could still transmit frames to the server or to other party
> if a ConnectionPeer is involved?

To answer my own question: by raising the origin-clean flags of the
<canvas> element the webcam was "attached" to.

Now, I see no reference to any interaction between <device> and
<canvas> mentionned in http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-device/

Julien.
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