Hi! I'm Sole!
I work for Mozilla
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Apps Engineering team
Make apps, help people make apps
Nowadays' browsers are amazing.
Let's do something awesome!
rtcamera
A fun camera app. In JavaScript.
Background
Nerdstalgia
Java...
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iOS? Mac?
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Windows? BlackBerry?
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Obscure platform you've never heard of??
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Plus feature requests...
... and still a one-person shop.
Aaaargh!!!!111one
WebRTC getUserMedia
== easy webcam access
WebGL
== realtime image processing
Demo time!
http://rtcamera.apps.5013.es
Mobile support
Firefox for Android, Firefox OS
Desktop support
Firefox, Chrome = Linux, Mac, Windows
We use many features
We use many features
| AppCache |
| Blob |
| IndexedDB |
| WebRTC.getUserMedia |
| WebGL |
| Web Workers |
Some of them don't work
| AppCache | |
| Blob | |
| IndexedDB | Safari (but using shim) |
| WebRTC.getUserMedia | Firefox OS (for now) |
| WebGL | Chrome for Android (for now) |
| Web Workers |
Graceful degradation
It's not all or nothing
Graceful degradation
Instead, at least a little bit
Make your app still useful
Graceful degradation
Except for Safari
It's the new IE6.
And it's open source
Poke. Learn. Contribute.
- Source code: github.com/sole/rtcamera
- Mentoring available upon request.
Questions?
Also,
