Platform/Features/Camera API

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Status

Ability to take a picture from a web page
Stage	Draft
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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.

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Team

Product manager	Chris Blizzard
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Localization lead	`
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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

Mobile bug with file picker:

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

Anant is willing to pull the capture part of the GIPS code out so we can use it for this feature.

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

|Feature 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.

|Feature 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. |Feature non-goals=This does not include the ability to capture a video and send that video somewhere. This is only for taking a picture. |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=` |Feature implementation plan=Mobile bug with file picker:

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

Anant is willing to pull the capture part of the GIPS code out so we can use it for this feature. |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=` |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

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

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Team status notes

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