On 2014-10-24 4:08 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Jet Villegas <[email protected]> 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.
Can we keep track of where the stream comes from, and make sure to taint
the images that can come out of them similar to the way that we taint
cross origin images by default to prevent them from being read back on
the client? I think with that, and a prompting similar to the camera
prompting of getUserMedia, we may address a good chunk of these issues.
(But admittedly I haven't thought very carefully about this yet.)
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.
That sounds like a good idea.
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