We're already doing screen capture in Firefox 33. Video, not still I think. But the APIs are in place, if the implementation is not.
This is not web-facing in the classic sense (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Screensharing) but there are plans to make at least a limited feature set available. Yes, there are massive security implications in that it basically destroys many of the web sandbox protections we work so hard for...if we permit capture of the browser. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jet Villegas" <j...@mozilla.com> To: "mozilla.dev.platform group" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> Cc: "Markus Stange" <msta...@mozilla.com>, "Stephen Pohl" <sp...@mozilla.com>, "L. David Baron" <dba...@mozilla.com>, "Ehsan Akhgari" <eh...@mozilla.com>, "Matt Woodrow" <mwood...@mozilla.com>, "Jonas Sicking" <sick...@mozilla.com>, "Nicolas Silva" <nsi...@mozilla.com>, "Robert O'Callahan" <rocalla...@mozilla.com>, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbar...@mozilla.com> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:10:54 PM Subject: Screen Capture Roc wrote up a proposal last year for a web-facing screen capture API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Roc/ScreenCaptureAPI Even if not web-facing, we could use the implementation code to cover chrome use cases like this one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=933389 At a recent GFx/Layout work week, we discussed using the Compositor to extract the screen-grab in an efficient, cross-platform manner. It seems we've got enough infrastructure in place to implement this quickly. I'd like options on the API to allow for obscuring text layers so that we could use the images for UI tiles, and other privacy-sensitive use cases. Kicking off this thread to get a discussion on: 1. Web-facing or not? 2. Security/Privacy concerns 3. Implementation concerns 4. Feature requests (eg. blurred or lorem-ipsum text) Other ideas? --Jet _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
