I believe the original intent with mozCamera was to deprecate it in favour of adding features to getUserMedia, getUserMedia was missing a lot of functionality a camera required and prior to implementing it it was hard to see how to modify it to match the camera use case.
I would hope thats still the plan, but I am not up to date on the status / priorities On 17 April 2014 13:02, Prateek Jadhwani <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we need to use both because there are some developers who use the > same code base for other platforms. If we remove it, it could create > problems for those people. > > Prateek Jadhwani > www.prateekjadhwani.com > On Apr 17, 2014 7:09 AM, "Paul Theriault" <[email protected]> wrote: > > We now have two camera APIs exposed to third-party apps in b2g - > navigator.mozCamera and navigator.getUserMedia (which use the ‘camera’ and > ‘video-capture’ permissions, respectively). Previously camera was certified > only, and getUserMedia was prompt upon each use (i.e. no remembered choice, > and not shown in settings app). This is changing though - mozCamera is > already available to privileged apps (bug 982777), and bug 938467 is to > introduce a way to remember prompts in getUserMedia. > > Both APIs have a similar prompt, and would likely have a similar name in > the settings app, possibly leading to confusion for the user. So I think we > should aim to have a single camera prompt and single camera permission in > the settings app. But I am not what the long term plan is for mozCamera, or > what the best approach to achieve this unified UI. > > Do we plan to expose mozCamera to regular web apps and web content, and > perhaps could we therefore eventually just use the same permission)? Or do > we need want to remain having separate permissions, and unify the prompt > and the permission in the settings app somehow? > > Or something else? Thoughts? > > -Paul > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > >
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