Platform/Features/Camera API

Status

Team

Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

This is a request for the functionality to take a picture from a computer's attached camera and use it in a web application.

2. Users & use cases

• Take a picture on flickr, or upload from your gallery.
• Take a profile photo on facebook, or upload from your gallery.
• Instagram for the web.

3. Dependencies

• Requires an underlying implementation for capturing from camera devices. (done - anant has volunteered!)

4. Requirements

For mobile we should use an external app for performance reasons.

For desktop we should be able to take an image snapshot.

Non-goals

• This does not include the ability to capture a video and send that video somewhere. This is only for taking a picture.
• Previewing the image in a canvas with the ability to modify it before uploading it to a server; previewing and modifying the image won't be possible with this implementation (Phase 2 will eventually provide that functionality).

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

First iteration design specification

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

Mobile implementation is almost landed.

Main bug for desktop: Bug 692955

Currently waiting on three things to happen for desktop:

• Implementation of the Chrome UI (fabrice)
• Implementation of the in-page UI (mounir or dholbert)
• WebRTC integration and landing (jesup):
  • Landing Windows build support (ted)
  • Pruning code base for image capture (as needed) (jesup)
  • Legal review (under way, no problems expected)
  • Security review of code paths needed for image capture (jesup, curtis)
  • Picking a 'stable point' in WebRTC upstream to use as the mergepoint (jesup)
  • Landing review of the capture code from webrtc (jesup)
  • Post-landing testing and debugging (jesup, fabrice, qa, etc)

Ignore stuff below this line, here for history only.

Android support landed:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659188
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621915

8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

Remaining bug for Android: Bug 708175, which was just marked resolved fixed (April 14).

Feature details

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