[webkit-dev] Trying to turn WebRTC's code on - MEDIA_STREAM flags

[Benjamin Poulain]

On 8/24/14, 8:37 AM, Alexandre GOUAILLARD wrote:
> For clarification of the  goals and the scope, we intend to provide 
> patches in webkit for webRTC. We would love to see webRTC support in 
> iOS and we understand that having it in apple provided webkit 
> (UIWebView) to comply to apple store rule 2.17. We understand we do 
> not have complete control over the entire process, especially the 
> eventual packaging and deployment, and the timelines, and that apple 
> does not comment about this, but we thought implementing it in webkit 
> was a necessary prerequisite in any case. For the rest we will have 
> faith :-)
>
> During a phone conversation with eric C, we've ben told that we should 
> start by making it happen in the macOS X port as we would snot be able 
> to build for iOS and because the differences were not so big between 
> the iOS and the macOS ports.
Yep, that sounds like a good plan.
> JO has been working on the Media Capture and Stream and webRTC APIs 
> for almost a year, and developed an IE and Safari plugin that 
> implements all of the APIs. He reads/speaks/write web IDL fluently 
> now, and now all the subtleties of the constraints, streams, tracks, 
> ect. I sit at the standard committees and help with everything that is 
> not clear from the specs. Unfortunately, that does not help understand 
> webkit intricacies and that's where we are today.
>
> We reached out to Eric C, Thiago from nokia (NIX port), kirun from 
> samsung, and started from there. I also speak regularly with adam Be. 
> from ericson at the w3c meetings. I will jump in the project and add 
> an additional senior staff, so we should be 2~3 FTE starting tuesday. 
> Looking at philippe N works in WK2, it looks like you would be a 
> reviewer of any patch we would submit, correct? (bug 
> <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123158>)
I help from time to time but the right reviewers for work on multimedia 
are Brent Fulgham, Eric Carlson, Jer Noble and Philippe Normand.
> With our target (iOS/MacOS X) should we target WK1 or WK2? We plan to 
> finalize the webcore part first, but we need to target an app, and a 
> port for testing. NIX does not seem to be an option anymore.
Usually, what goes into the WebKit layer is small and WK1 and WK2 are 
done simultaneously. For the initial prototype, you can focus on WebKit2 
and port the code to WebKit1 once you have something stable.

On OS X, WebKit2 is used by WKWebView and Safari, WebKit1 is used by the 
WebView API. On iOS, WebKit2 is used by WKWebView and Safari, WebKit1 is 
used by UIWebView.

For initial prototyping, you can generally focus on WebKit2 first.
> There also seem to have been a discussion about the design (platform 
> vs client) triggered by adam Be.. Anybody knows if there was a 
> conclusion? (bug <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67946>) We 
> would prefer putting a maximum of common code in webcore, as proposed 
> by adam.
The architecture depends on the backend but also security considerations 
(especially with the access to hardware). You should ask Eric Carlson 
for input.
> We are also contributing some tests to w3c (based on testharness.js, 
> testing the bindings and IDL only) that we plan to use for testing. 
> Dominique has recently committed the tests for steams and tracks using 
> the latest spec (here 
> <https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/mediacapture-streams>). 
> Is there anything we should prepare in the layout tests for this as 
> well? It looks like the media stream tests have been excluded from the 
> tests for the time being.
That is a good start. You can import W3C tests into WebKit.

To qualify for a release, you would need to have a lot more testing than 
that. Given the scope of WebRTC, this will require improving the testing 
infrastructure of WebKit.
> We are trying to have a working implementation by oct 15th, so we 
> could send it for test around and get feedback in time for discussion 
> during the W3C technical plenary and advisory committee meeting on 
> oct. 27th, in San Jose, CA.
Honestly this seems a little short, WebRTC is big. Most non-trivial 
features take several months to get in good shape with proper testing 
and performance coverage.

It is probably possible to get a working prototype in 2 months, but this 
will require great review cycles.

Benjamin
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