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Describing more accurately what source information is made available
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alvestrand committed Nov 20, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -109,15 +109,11 @@ <h2>Terminology</h2>
can be a physical webcam, microphone, local video or audio file from
the user's hard drive, network resource, or static image.</p>

<p>Other than the source identifier (defined in
<code><a>MediaDeviceInfo</a>.deviceId</code>),
other bits of source identity are
<strong>never</strong> directly available to the application until
the user agent connects a source to a track. Once a source has been
"released" to the application (either via a permissions UI,
pre-configured allow-list, or some other release mechanism) the
application will be able discover additional source-specific
capabilities.</p>
<p>An application that has no prior authorization regarding sources is
only given the number of available sources, their type and any
relationship to other devices. Additional information about sources
can become available when applications are authorized to use a source
(see <a href="#access-control-model"></a>).</p>

<p>Sources <strong>do not</strong> have constraints -- tracks have
constraints. When a source is connected to a track, it must,
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