API Working Group

Date: 2019-11-04

Attendees

Members:

@codebytere
@loc
@jkleinsc
@itsananderson
@marshallofsound

Visitors:

None

Agenda

feat: add app.getApplicationNameForProtocol API
- Verdict: Approved
feat: add systemPreferences.isScreenCaptureAllowed
- alternative: systemPreferences.getMediaAccessStatus('screen')
- Verdict: Approved systemPreferences.getMediaAccessStatus('screen') semantics, approval pending spec proposal (see Action Items)
<webview>.getWebContents() deprecation
- feat: make remote.getGuestWebContents() public
- alternative: remote.webContents.fromId(<webview>.getWebContentsId())
- Verdict: Remove getGuestWebContents(), instruct users to use webContents.fromId()
Proposal: MessagePorts in Electron *
Proposal: Improved native window.open
- Verdict: Do option A

Follow-up Discussion

Action Items

@miniak to refactor systemPreferences.isScreenCaptureAllowed and write up API proposal spec (which has been implicitly approved by this WG)
@codebytere to review Proposal: MessagePorts in Electron
@nornagon to open spec PR for Proposal: MessagePorts in Electron to gov
@loc to open spec PR for Proposal: Improved native window.open

Unblock Requests

None.

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