[whatwg] PeerConnection, MediaStream, getUserMedia(), and other feedback

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I'd expect a web app to have no idea about device camera
specifications and thus to not be able to properly specify a flash
duration. I don't see how such a thing is valuable.

If a user is in a movie theater, or a museum, it's quite likely they
won't notice a web app is forcing a flash. Let the user control flash
through a useragent only or host application only mode. I believe the
hazards of exposing flash duration outweigh any benefits. The only
application class I know of built using control of camera flash is
"flash-light", and that's both a hack and not guaranteed to be
workable for all possible flash technologies.

On 7/14/11, Shwetank Dixit <shwetankd at opera.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:09:40 +0530, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Another question is flash. As far as I have seen, there seems to be no
>>> option to specify whether the camera needs to use flash or not. Is this
>>> decision left up to the device? (If someone is making an app which is
>>> just clicking a picture of the person, then it would be nice to have the
>>> camera use flash in low light conditions).
>> getUserMedia() returns a video stream, so it wouldn't use a flash.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to have a provision for flash separately then? I
> think a lot of apps would like just a picture instead of video, and in
> those cases, flash would be required. Maybe a seperate provision in the
> spec which defines whether to use flash, and if so, for how many
> miliseconds. Is that doable?
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