Re: [rtcweb] Proposal for a JS API for NoPlan (adding multiple sources without encoding them in SDP)

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sat, 29 June 2013 13:25 UTC

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Cc: Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com>, "rtcweb@ietf.org" <rtcweb@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Proposal for a JS API for NoPlan (adding multiple sources without encoding them in SDP)
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:

> Cullen, do you think that W3C would ever design a JS API that forces the
> developer to deal with an unmanageable blob string? Can somebody point me
> to an existing similar "API" in HTML5?
>
Well, the original WHATWG specification had more or less the same structure
of
having the PeerConnection emit an opaque SDP blob. I.e., this is a design
that originally comes from Ian Hickson.

-Ekr