Platform/Features/Camera API
Status
| Ability to take a picture from a web page (<input type="picture">) - "Phase 1" | |
| Stage | Design | 
| Status | In progress | 
| Release target | Firefox 15 (Maire to confirm) | 
| Health | OK | 
| Status note | This is almost completed on Mobile where driver support is available via an external app; support for desktop will be added after the base WebRTC code is landed. | 
{{#set:Feature name=Ability to take a picture from a web page (<input type="picture">) - "Phase 1"
|Feature stage=Design |Feature status=In progress |Feature version=Firefox 15 (Maire to confirm) |Feature health=OK |Feature status note=This is almost completed on Mobile where driver support is available via an external app; support for desktop will be added after the base WebRTC code is landed. }}
Team
| Product manager | Maire Reavy | 
| Directly Responsible Individual | Maire Reavy (was 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 | Erin Lancaster (project manager for Android) | 
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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
- 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). {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=` |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. |Feature users and 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.
|Feature dependencies=* Requires an underlying implementation for capturing from camera devices. (done - anant has volunteered!) |Feature requirements=For mobile we should use an external app for performance reasons.
For desktop we should be able to take an image snapshot. |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.
- 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).
|Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=First iteration design specification |Feature 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
|Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=` |Feature landing criteria=Remaining bug for Android: Bug 708175, which was just marked resolved fixed (April 14). }}
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
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` | 
| Engineering | ` | ` | 
| Security | sec-review-unnecessary | Per note from imelven review unnecessary | 
| Privacy | ` | ` | 
| Localization | ` | ` | 
| Accessibility | ` | ` | 
| Quality assurance | ` | ` | 
| User experience | ` | ` | 
| Product marketing | ` | ` | 
| Operations | ` | ` | 
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