On February 17, 2015 at 11:01:24 PM, Benjamin Francis ([email protected])
wrote:
> On 17 February 2015 at 02:27, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> Unfortunately that isn't good enough. We want to be able to build
> Instragram using the web. That won't work if the system provides the only
> camera UI as browser chrome, which Instagram accesses by pressing a camera
> button. Instagram wants to *be* the camera UI. If the developers of
> Instagram can't build the experience they want to build using the web, then
> they will just use other proprietary platforms instead.
Again, this is why I mentioned getUserMedia(). Apart from touch
focus/white-balance and flash control, how far off is this from Instagram?
Compare, on Desktop:
http://webcamtoy.com/app/
Seems to me we are not too far off... hell, the above shows can do the filters
in real time - take that, Instagram! :)
> >
> > By design, you can't build system-level services an apps using web
> > technology. That's what c++, Rust, or certified-level APIs are for.
> >
>
> Broadly speaking the goal of the B2G project is to fix that problem, by
> redefining what is "system-level" and what can be built using the web. I
> agree there should be a clear boundary between what is the web and what
> isn't the web, but perhaps you don't quite appreciate the extent of what
> we're asking the web to do :)
>
Perhaps. It would be good to align on vision. We are clearly seeing the world
differently.
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