Re: [rtcweb] Preserving stream isolation when traversing the network

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 07 March 2014 10:24 UTC

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I agree with the conclusion, however:

On 7 March 2014 10:19, Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com> wrote:
> Many of the use cases I see use these APIs to do things like add titlebars, mix audio streams play audio prompts etc,

The stuff you cite can be achieved without having to of webgl or
webaudio.  But I agree with the principle: there are cases where
isolation is inconvenient.