Here is my writeup of the security issues with this from a while ago: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/2013Mar/0024.html
As MT says, we already are shipping screen sharing in FF 33. It's currently whitelisted, but otherwise it's fairly complete. -Ekr On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Jet Villegas <j...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Kicking off this thread to get a discussion on: > > > > 1. Web-facing or not? > > I think we have to make it web facing. If we want the web to be > competitive with other platforms, which I hope we do, we have to > expose this functionality. > > However it definitely has a lot of > > > 2. Security/Privacy concerns > > so we'd have to be careful with how we do it. For example always > showing an on-screen indicator indicating that the screen is currently > shared. And reminding the user that password etc can be read by the > remote party. > > And forcing the user to explicitly choose the option rather than just > clicking a "yes" button (aka 'whatever button') might be a good idea. > > It would also be cool to enable sharing just a particular app, or a > particular browser tab. This is a problem that I see in native apps > often. At some video conference someone wants to share a slideshow, > but they end up showing their mail inbox or other open documents that > happen to be on screen at the same time. > > In fact, we could display a list of running apps/tabs and then add an > entry for "full screen". Then force the user to actively choose one of > the options in the list before clicking a "share <appname>" button. > > / Jonas > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
