Audio Recording in the Browser
Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 17th Jul 2009 15:30 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones "I'm really excited to announce a new feature in Jetpack 0.4 -- Audio Recording. 'Jetpacks' can now access the microphone with just a few simple lines of Javascript [...] The result is an audio file encoded in Ogg/Vorbis, which you can then playback, or if you choose to upload the file to a remote location". A while ago we discussed Jetpack (and Google's) HTML / JavaScript based browser extensions. Now the ante has been upped, with such creativity as URL-based voice memos!
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Audio in browser
by jefro on Fri 17th Jul 2009 19:53 UTC
jefro
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2007-04-13

Might make a good web based Audacity?

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hmmmm
by defdog99 on Fri 17th Jul 2009 19:54 UTC
defdog99
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2006-09-06

Great. Now malware can record you to get more identity info...

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RE: hmmmm
by Kroc on Fri 17th Jul 2009 20:23 UTC in reply to "hmmmm"
Kroc Member since:
2005-11-10

And it couldn’t do that already? I brought up this topic in the article, “read more” and I’ve explained how this actually improves security.

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RE[2]: hmmmm
by John Blink on Sat 18th Jul 2009 14:36 UTC in reply to "RE: hmmmm"
John Blink Member since:
2005-10-11

Good point.

But how do we know no one is listening ;)

Hope we could have a visual cue that it is off. Also a way to have it permanently off. Unless we choose to use it.

BTW I am safe I covered the webcam just like Bruce Willis.

Edited 2009-07-18 14:40 UTC

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Security is Important
by anantn on Fri 17th Jul 2009 20:57 UTC
anantn
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2008-11-27

Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs prototype at this stage; but we are definitely working towards a stronger security framework for jetpack features.

Subsequent versions will have every jetpack run inside a security context that will restrict privileges and prompt the user before the jetpack can do anything that would put your privacy at risk.

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RE: Security is Important
by Kroc on Fri 17th Jul 2009 21:02 UTC in reply to "Security is Important"
Kroc Member since:
2005-11-10

Will Jetpack ever be rolled back into the browser, instead of this coffee-shop-inside-a-book-shop approach? What you’ve done is really great, but having to install Jetpack and then install another layer of extensions is too much UI for most.

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Extensions 2.0
by anantn on Fri 17th Jul 2009 21:11 UTC
anantn
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2008-11-27

Jetpack is commonly viewed as "Firefox Extensions 2.0", so in the long run, uplift into core Firefox is highly probable. Before that can happen, however, Jetpack needs a lot of work, we need to be sure that it is production ready.

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UhHuh
by johnney on Fri 17th Jul 2009 21:45 UTC
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2009-07-17

I used ff for a while. It is apparent that all the addons and plugins (nonsense) are not necessary for a good browsing experience. I can safely add this to the altogether too long list of reasons why I do not install FF. I do however use FF in the torbrowser which is just fine by me. I currently use k-meleon ccfme 0.095 v3 portably with QTWeb as alternate for kicks and IE8 because I live in the US and can't seem to get rid of it without losing updateability.

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RE: UhHuh
by anantn on Sat 18th Jul 2009 01:52 UTC in reply to "UhHuh"
anantn Member since:
2008-11-27

The whole point of addons/plugins is that not everybody needs all of them. Why not just use a bare Firefox instance and not install any addons if that's what you want?

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Comment by kaiwai
by kaiwai on Sat 18th Jul 2009 01:56 UTC
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2005-07-06

The great thing about video tag is that it eventually frees up people from using flash for video play back. There is now video encoding which could mean that in the future that there could be a capture tag so that flash can be replaced in that area; web based video capturing without the need for flash.

Regarding the video tag, which is a little offtopic; There is a plugin developed ontop of Moonlight called Moonshine which enables WMV/WMA/ASF playback on Windows using Microsoft's own CODECs. Silverlight 3.0 introduces more CODECs such as h264 support - hopefully if that filters back to Moonlight and in turn Moonshine, then the hope of a video tag based on h264 without it costing Firefox or Opera huge loads of money could be a possibility.

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