DisplayMediaStreamOptions monitorTypeSurfaces

Category: WebRTC
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 119)
Intent stage: None

Summary

When getDisplayMedia() is called, the browser offers the user a choice of display surfaces: tabs, windows, or monitors. Using the monitorTypeSurfaces option, the web application may now hint to the browser if it prefers to include display surfaces whose type is monitor among the choices offered to the user.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-screen-share/#dom-displaymediastreamoptions-monitortypesurfaces
Firefox: No signal — Jan-Ivar Bruaroey from Mozilla has reviewed and approved https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-screen-share/pull/274.
Safari: No signal — Youenn Fablet from Apple has participated in https://www.w3.org/2023/06/27-webrtc-minutes.html#t04 and https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-screen-share/issues/261#issuecomment-1693090386.
Web developers: Positive — Cisco folks have expressed interest in this feature.
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1477706

Docs: https://github.com/eladalon1983/screen-share-explainers/blob/main/monitorTypeSurfaces_Explainer.md

Samples: https://screen-sharing-controls.glitch.me

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