WebAPI/2011-08-30

Status

• WebSMS
• WebUSB
• WebTelephony
• Security model
• "FileSystem"
• Camera

Notes

• SMS
  • Got SMS object, with uuid
  • Support for delete
  • All works on android
  • Missing get, possibly next week
• USB
  • Still working on windows impl
  • Device identifying API on windows is tricky
  • Rough details added to wiki
• Telephony
  • Spec in wiki
  • DOM stuff mostly ready
  • Starting backend this week
• B2G platform
  • Anything that works on android works on B2G now
  • Java APIs will get removed
  • You can give it a HTML page that it'll use as home screen
• Web Vibrator
  • There are patches, but they need some work
  • If someone wants to take them to the finish line, go ahead
• Camera
  • 2 main use cases, 1 other
    1. most effort, hardest: streaming video
       • whole team working on that WebRTC
       • connectivity (firewall workarounds), streaming (changing bandwidth conditions)
       • no ETA
    2. still image, upload to web page
       • need to find someone to do this
       • sicking has API ideas
       • need cross platform code to read from cameras (WebRTC has this, need to separate out from 1 above)
       • basically <input type="file"> with UI button to take picture
       • blizzard working on finding someone to do this
       • might be working on fennec already (fabrice working on this?), just need desktop owner
    3. no effort yet, taking short video clips
       • important? need to determine if anyone cares
       • which encoding format? flame on!
  • khuey had some code for this a year ago, not sure if that is what WebRTC is using or not.
  • anant is maybe best contact? (related to Labs Rainbow project)