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isDevicePermissionGranted should return something else than false when it can't detect permissions

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The method isDevicePermissionGranted on JitsiMeetJS.mediaDevices currently returns true or false when permission is granted or not.

Some browsers don’t support the required APIs (Safari…) and the method returns false all the time. So, if you planned to display a warning in case permission is not granted, it is always displayed on those browsers…

I’d like to suggest that the method should return a third value, null, when it can’t detect the permissions.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (5 by maintainers)

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saghulcommented, Aug 18, 2021

I’m afraid there is no way to know that in Firefox without trying. They don’t implement the “camera” and “microphone” permissions in the Permissions API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Permissions_API

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saghulcommented, Apr 8, 2021

Probably undefined makes more sense here.

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