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Status

Ability to take a picture from a web page (<input type="picture">)
Stage	Draft
Status	`
Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	This has progress on Mobile where an external app is being used to take a picture, but has no traction on desktop.

Team

Product manager	Chris Blizzard
Directly Responsible Individual	Chris Blizzard
Lead engineer	Fabrice Desré
Security lead	Ian Melven
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	`
UX lead	`
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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

Definition of the experience that we want for developers and users.
Requires a solid camera camera API definition for web content.
Requires an underlying implementation for capturing from camera devices. (done - anant has volunteered!)
Requires someone to put it all together.

4. Requirements

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

For desktop we should be able to display the image in a canvas for preview and the ability to modify it before uploading it to a server.

Non-goals

This does not include the ability to capture a video and send that video somewhere. This is only for taking a picture.

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

Android support landed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659188 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621915

Desktop bug, with an implementation for gstreamer (rotted, last touched on 2010-10-18):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451674

We will use the GIPS code for this feature on desktop.

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

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	Connect
Roadmap	Platform
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Platform
Project	`
Engineering team	DOM

Team status notes

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Engineering	`	`
Security	`	`
Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	`	`
User experience	`	`
Product marketing	`	`
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 For desktop we should be able to display the image in a canvas for preview and the ability to modify it before uploading it to a server.
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 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451674
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