Platform/Features/Camera API
Status
| Ability to take a picture from a web page (<input type="picture">) | |
| Stage | Design |
| Status | In progress |
| 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 | John Hammink |
| UX lead | Jennifer Morrow |
| 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
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |