I seldom see visibility for any releases in popular browsers. The only time I notice any is if I don't use it for years, then get handed a work laptop that uses X browser. It's at least cool to see these docs even if I likely won't ever see/appreciate the element in use.
Chrome basically is abusing its market position, 69.65% globally, and becomes the new IE. Implementing its own HTML/JS standard.
The sad truth is, some companies will look at Statcounter[0] and say because Firefox does not reach 5% global population and decided not supporting it, actively or passively.
If you wanted to do dynamic stuff in IE, you had to use ActiveX. Which was IE-only. So many sites only used ActiveX, because IE was the 900lb gorilla, so why support anything else?
Uughh why do we need this whole new html element and not simply make the getUserMedia API allowed to be called more than once if the initiator is a user click?
Or even fixing the "navigating complex browser settings" issue. They control the freaking UI yet still use that as an excuse to build something else instead. Pretty hilarious.
New is old and old is new. Back in 2010 the W3C had originally proposed camera access via the `<device>` tag.
Opera even shipped a build supporting it.
> Cisco observed that users who initially denied permissions were only about 10% likely to successfully grant permissions using legacy prompts, but that rate jumped to more than 65% with the new element.
Meaning they tricked more people into granting permissions they would have otherwise not granted.
Or "we willfully borked the permission system in chrome so we could force everyone to implement our stupid solution". They could've just made better the "options" button at the top left of the URL bar which already allows you to quickly edit the website granted permissions but nuh uh. Be As Evil As Possible:tm:
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[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
We went to this rodeo a generation ago. Nothing was learned.
Stop getting history twisted.
If you wanted to do dynamic stuff in IE, you had to use ActiveX. Which was IE-only. So many sites only used ActiveX, because IE was the 900lb gorilla, so why support anything else?
Meaning they tricked more people into granting permissions they would have otherwise not granted.