Platform/Features/Camera API

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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.

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)

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:

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).

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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Security	sec-review-unnecessary	Per note from imelven review unnecessary
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Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
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