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Camera and privacy changes in Labs

By koranty. Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:00:00 AM

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Welcome back on the desktop blog in the New Year! Our batteries are fully loaded, we hope yours too wink, so lets start this year with something interesting, that will catch your eyes! Let us share with you an experimental Camera build, which we made available at Opera Labs. From now on you can set and manage privacy settings for the camera directly from the UI, which wasn't possible in earlier build we showed you. When you are visiting the page, that wants to use your camera, you'll be asked to grant permission to camera stream for that site via special notification callout.
This new privacy settings interface contains information about all used devices, including geolocation settings.

With the getusermedia support you don't depend on the 3rd party plugins or special extensions. Everything what you need is just Opera Browser ... oh and web camera of course!

So if you have some webcam plug it in, grab the build from Opera Labs and check how it works!

Developer notes: If you've tried to use camera with our previous labs camera build, notice that we are up to date with latest specification. Remember to use video as an object instead of a string when accessing video stream through getusermedia.

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Comments

Danieledarklink88 Monday, January 9, 2012 4:08:52 PM

thank U! I was waiting for a new snapshot!

marbross Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:17:41 AM

Actually,how does it work?

crash1 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:23:29 AM

it's a real snapshot. just "Grab yourself a build" on a page http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/getusermedia-access-camera-privacy-ui/

Gela2011 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:35:42 AM

this is what causes alcoholism
Our batteries are fully loaded,and your not

Javier Gutierrezjgutierrez Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:40:24 AM

No Win64 build this time from labs?

Satan D. Lucifersupertrol Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:03:16 AM

This build scores a 374+9/475 in HTML5tests.com with websockets enabled

cool

Christophchristoph142 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:22:04 AM

Originally posted by jgutierrez:

No Win64 build this time from labs?


No, they never put all of the stuff they're working on in one snapshot. In Labs they only take the most current Next-Release and implement the one (or let it be two) features they are concentrating on.
Since they were working on the getUserMedia-Interface and not on OOPP, the latter isn't implemented and thus no x64-build wink

Swapnil RustagiSwapnil99pro Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:26:39 AM

Does this Labs build include hardware acceleration and WebGL? Seems it does.

NeXaen Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:43:40 AM

here it is build 1232 Opera 12 :
http://snapshot.opera.com/labs/camera/

sabisan Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:54:56 AM

Mod edit: Please do not contribute to spamming the blog with pointless comments.

Diego Schildtekonaza Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:04:57 AM

Nice! yes

GTSSGela2010 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:05:34 AM

Originally posted by NeXaen:

here it is build 1232 Opera 12 :
http://snapshot.opera.com/labs/camera/

real! and that they have laid out here!? they are drunk

fisherman10 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:07:04 AM

and where are the bug fixes?

olli Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:18:08 AM

Originally posted by fisherman10:

and where are the bug fixes?


This is a labs release, read the blogpost...

olli Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:18:49 AM

Originally posted by sabisan:

Originally posted by Gela2011:

Originally posted by koyamaneko:
Originally posted by Penge4:Originally posted by Avola:I want a real snapshot!+1+1
+1


+1

Please keep the feedback relevant to the labs release and constructive. You guys are not exactly encouraging more snapshots this way

joshas Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:30:30 AM

Finally devices support are coming to browsers. Add support for gamepads next.
And with camera supported, someone should finally write a HTML5 alternative to that annoying resource hog called skype.

StayPuft Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:55:26 AM

nice job .scroll issue was solved with this build. smile
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why websocket its disabled by default ?

Deathamns Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:50:58 PM

geolocation and getUserMedaia are unavailable in extensions. Is it intentional or a bug? pic

koranty Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:13:37 PM

Originally posted by Deathamns:

geolocation and getUserMedaia are unavailable in extensions. Is it intentional or a bug? http://files.myopera.com/Deathamns/tmp/getusermedia.png]pic[/url]


That's intentional as of now.

Lương Thế Minh Quangquangltm Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:38:13 PM

Nice. Let's try. Thanks team.

Muneer Hassan Abdullamha2999 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:44:39 PM

interesting ! Thank U

Przemek Sakrajdablendingcolours Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:27:03 PM

Is it on the top of last 12.00 or it's just labs fork of 12.00?

Nimesh nimeshthakkar Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:54:59 PM

Labs build snapshot posted by Desktop Team... sherlock Does this mean all future snapshots including labs would come from desktop team?

NiColaoSNikDaMark Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:03:47 PM

I think it would be great if you start making it clearer what exactly is going on about each release.

As I see it currently:

Opera Stable - Fx Stable - Chrome Stable

Opera Next - Fx Beta/Aurora - Chrome Beta/Dev

Opera Labs - Fx Nightly - Chromium Dev/Canary.

I get it more or less, but many people are confused. You could easily avoid a little mess. Create 'channels'!

Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:29:57 PM

Originally posted by NikDaMark:

Opera Labs - Fx Nightly - Chromium Dev/Canary.

That wouldn't be accurate. Opera doesn't release builds with all of the latest and greatest to the public like Mozilla and Webkit do.

magnitafon Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:34:28 PM

@NiColaoS
I think you're not completely right.
Opera browser is not an open source project, so there's no point for public nightly builds.
Opera [stable] and Opera Next are channels in fact.
Lab builds are special separate builds made to expose some experimental feature to the public.
Posts about lab builds in this blog are just announcements to be seen by much wider audience, than mere developers monitoring dev.opera.com site.
I don't know how more clear can it be. One just don't have to try to conform Opera's development flow to competitors' standards.

robrobdog2008 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8:50:14 PM

still haveing a issue with ipb board with ckeditor being completely black when on

Constantine Vesnac69 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:16:49 PM

Very nice update!

@NiColaoS
Opera Next ~= Chrome Dev
Opera Labs ~= IE Labs (http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/)
Firefox Nightly cannot be compared to anything because it updates like 5 times a day.

DillonAstrophizz Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:46:50 PM

Actually "Next" like Chrome Dev (Firefox Aurora) and then Chrome Beta (Firefox Beta) as it progresses to final. It's a moving channel in a sense because it includes alpha, beta, and RC stages. As a result its stability is less predictable as it becomes more stable, drops back to being unstable, and repeats. It's really not a channel like with Chrome or Firefox, just a rebranding of the same development cycle as Opera has been using and Firefox used to use, with the ability to constantly loop through the development stages and not slide into the release stage.

Ayrton Nádgelayrtonnadgel92 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:19:44 PM

www.cnet.com this much better.. bigsmile yes jester

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:24:54 PM

Originally posted by ayrtonnadgel92:

www.cnet.com this much better..


That's because of a new browser.js file, should work better on all versions

Ayrton Nádgelayrtonnadgel92 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:33:23 PM

Originally posted by ytsmabeer:

That's because of a new browser.js file, should work better on all versions


+1

sergiol Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:07:54 PM

"you don't depend on the 3rd party plugins or special extensions. Everything what you need is just Opera Browser"

WHAT?

No native auto complete.
No Native NTLM proxy authentication support.

Wojciechwoyt Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:55:05 PM

I dont know is this normal in this snapshot, but cursor is not changing when stepping on link

Muneer Hassan Abdullamha2999 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:31:41 AM

Originally posted by woyt:

I dont know is this normal in this snapshot, but cursor is not changing when stepping on link



it works fine with me !

nahtanoj999 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:39:08 AM

Are you planning on getting rid of the "allow once" option, which allows the choice not to remembered?

koranty Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:14:04 AM

Originally posted by nahtanoj999:

Are you planning on getting rid of the "allow once" option, which allows the choice not to remembered?


Thank you for feedback. As this is Labs build it's still work in progress so it's not like final design.

Martin RapavýAntikapitalista Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:16:05 PM

Dear comrades in Opera Labs,
perhaps you could try to develop an unheard-of feature (at least in Opera)... that has already managed to get a Wikipedia page, so I assume that is fairly notable.

Let me quote some of the GFDL content:
„Autocomplete is a feature provided by many web browsers... Autocomplete speeds up human-computer interactions... In web browsers, autocomplete is done (...) in text boxes on frequently used pages...“
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocomplete#In_web_browsers

Do you think it could be eventually programatically possible to implement it?
(I know you offered some place for feature requests, but I do not know where is the place where the requests are considered, or at least noticed, rather than silently ignored, like in a trash section.)

It is just an idea as to what may be a (much more) useful feature..

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:23:02 PM

Originally posted by Antikapitalista:

Do you think it could be eventually programatically possible to implement it?


that was never the issue, security was/is as for as I believe

Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:59:08 AM

Originally posted by Antikapitalista:

Autocomplete

See here.

TidanDadanofficial Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:09:04 PM

I have one concerns on Soundclound the music which I rest on stop she(it) always continues without stopping

Wangbo59wangbo59 Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:10:27 PM

I like this feature and hope it makes it into opera-next soon as well as stable later. For me I'm finding opera-next and labs to be a little more stable than stable. odd I know but am looking forward to the future.

Tomasz KupczykFlojdek Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:26:56 PM

Thanks for the labs, labs are cool! wink All demos work perfectly for me on Debian 6.0.

sergiol Friday, January 13, 2012 1:23:55 AM

Originally posted by daniel:

Preferences: Forms will work on any non-password text field. It offers auto-complete for common data you enter (naming your personal data + some custom fields). That not everything you ever typed in an text field is remembered is more a privacy feature than a feature omission.



This is PLAIN WRONG. Since the time Opera implements Private browsing, this is no acceptable justification. The correct way of working should be:
- If I type in fields of a normal Tab/Window, the text should be added to the Autocomplete list
- If I type in fields of a Private Tab/Window, the text should not be added to the Autocomplete list

So, if I want things to not remember what I typed, I just open a Private space and continue without any worries

timyau Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:06:20 AM

The sidebar is sometimes (or always?) no effect when click on the side. Cannot open and close..

Snow of Marchsnowofmarch Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:45:33 PM

It happens only on one of my machines.
When I turn "Enable Hardware Acceleration" to 1, the title bar and other frame-areas draw with solid black color, and max/min/close buttons are not rendered (still working, however).

Windows Vista Home 32bit.
Graphics chip: GeForce 8400GS.

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