The best person to reply to this is Jan-Ivar (jib on IRC); he's on PTO until after New Years. I'll point this thread out to him when he's back.
Thanks. -Maire On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's say I want to build a WebRTC app and allow users to enumerate and > select media devices in the page. I want this UI as consistent as possible > across browsers. > > Right now, the situation is not good in Firefox. After an initial gUM > call (so I have labels for my enumerated devices), the user flow looks like > this: > > 1. Webpage has UI for enumerating, selecting devices > 2. User changes mic or cam > 3. User did not select "always allow", so gUM dialog shows again, with its > own selection options > 4. User must click share to share a second time. > > This is klunky and weird for users--they made a selection, so the > secondary gUM dialog showing up is really confusing. If the user did > select "always allow" then this custom selection works how you'd expect: > their changes are reflected immediately. > > You'd think a workaround would almost be for the web page to simply have a > button to change mic/speakers, so the gUM dialog shows and user can select > them there. However, that breaks down if the user DID select "always > allow" because then gUM shows no dialog and there's no way to change > devices at all. > > Chrome doesn't suffer from this problem, because after an initial gUM > request on the page, it allows unprompted access to that page--basically, > "always allow" being the default. > > My question is whether or not there's any work scheduled in Firefox to > resolve this ambiguity? Even if they didn't select "always allow," does it > really need to prompt with every change? Could it just prompt once when > the page is loaded instead? It is great to be able to enumerate mic/camera > and select the ones you want, but that feature is extremely hard (bordering > on impossible to communicate clearly to users) to implement in a sane way > with how gUM currently prompts in Firefox. > > You can test all of this at > https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/devices/input-output/ > _______________________________________________ > dev-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media > -- Maire Reavy [email protected] _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
