O Xov, 10-10-2013 ?s 20:50 +0100, Colin Guthrie escribiu: > It's certainly an interesting issue and your code highlights the > problem > quite well. > > I'm not sure I consider it a technical vulnerability tho' (just my > personal opinion) but I do appreciate the damage to both h/w and > hearing > that could result and thus I won't argue about classifying it as such. > > What would be more interesting to me would be how the same code works > on > Windows 7 which I believe also implements a flat volume scheme (not > sure > about Win 8) and how it handles stream volumes in this context > (background: > http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/publications/2004-Baudisch-CHI04-FlatVolumeControl.pdf) For Colin to know, before touching anything in WebKitGtk+ the behavior was that the volume was ramping up to 100% with every website regardless their volume control. I met Slomo and Lennart at GUADEC and we thought that the best was letting the sink, pulsesink in this case, set the volume and we would just get that for the slider, regardless the volume model applied. This was supposed to be a good compromise for the different situations (using PA with or without flat volumes, using another sink) as volume wouldn't ramp up to 100% always. There are some other restrictions we have to observe, though: 1. We want to be agnostic of the GStreamer sink used and of course, to the volume model used by pulse, because we don't know it. 2. We want to allow audio passthrough when possible. 3. We want to be coherent with the rest of GNOME apps, and the volume model they are using. 4. We have to comply with the HTML5 W3C standard that says that volume will be 100% by default, though user agents can decide to restore former volume (perfect if we let pulse decide it). We would easily add a GStreamer volume element and solve what Alexander says, buy we would be breaking 2 and 3 rules and to fulfill 3 and 4, I actually tested that with the proposed fix, the volume could still ramp up to 100% because in our opinion, it is up to the web developer to sanitize their volume management or up to the user to change the volume model. Best regards.
