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And of course its half-done. Asks me if I want the site to allow use of my non existing camera, and the options dropdown just has a (none) entry in it. It's th

And of course its half-done. Asks me if I want the site to allow use of my non existing camera, and the options dropdown just has a (none) entry in it. It's the same approach as with downloads. To this day, the only browser to support resuming downloads (and making use of HTTP range) is Opera.

jonknee 14y ago
As a developer I like that I can use the API now instead of just reading about it. Chrome rolls out updates very smoothly and rapidly, who cares if the initial support of a very new standard is not perfect? It sure beats the support that FireFox, IE and Safari have (none).
- MatthewPhillips 14y ago
  For this particular feature; there are plenty that Chrome doesn't support fully (IndexedDB) or at all (CSS calc) that those other browsers have had for quite a long time.
  - EricBurnett 14y ago
    Do you mean this IndexedDB? http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb . Or this calc? http://caniuse.com/#feat=calc http://caniuse.com/#feat=calc . They look pretty supported to me, remembering that they're both based on a draft specs.
    - MatthewPhillips 14y ago
      Calc must be new; this is great, this means Firefox, WebKit, and IE10 all have it. IndexedDB is using an outdated spec more than 8 months old.
    - khuey 14y ago
      Have you actually tried to use IndexedDB in Chrome? It's on an outdated spec draft from around a year ago.
  - randomfool 14y ago
    CSS calc has been in Chrome (behind a -webkit prefix) since Chrome 19. http://caniuse.com/calc http://caniuse.com/calc
- msujaws 14y ago
  Firefox got support for getUserMedia in July... https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/getusermedia-is-ready-to-roll/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/getusermedia-is-ready-to-r... Using Nightly go to about:config and enable the media.navigator.enabled pref, then you can test it out at this page: https://people.mozilla.com/~anarayanan/gum_test.html https://people.mozilla.com/~anarayanan/gum_test.html
  - jonknee 14y ago
    > Using Nightly go to about:config and enable the media.navigator.enabled pref, then you can test it out at this page That's not support. Support is on the shipping main branch. Chrome has had support for a while too if you wanted to jump through some hoops.
albertzeyer 14y ago
Why is that half-done? What should it have done instead? Maybe you have some USB camera you want to plug in when some site makes such request.
- revelation 14y ago
  Tell me I don't have a webcam connected and inform me that this site requires one, and possibly wait for me to connect one. Right now, I get the permission bar, click "accept" and it fails silently. And the "none" thing is really just a bad taste; you don't offer UI elements when they don't do anything. (I didn't try, but I think that permission dialog wouldn't even recognize it when I connected a camera after it opened)
  - hnriot 14y ago
    I don't agree, as others have said, this dialog could have served to remind you that you had forgotten to plug in your USB webcam. These days, no camera is surely an edge case that I think they handled fine.
binarycrusader 14y ago
Opera is not the only browser to support resuming downloads. With the appropriate server headers and local state, Safari and FireFox can also resume downloads.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  I believe Chrome does as well.

jonknee 14y ago

As a developer I like that I can use the API now instead of just reading about it. Chrome rolls out updates very smoothly and rapidly, who cares if the initial support of a very new standard is not perfect? It sure beats the support that FireFox, IE and Safari have (none).

MatthewPhillips 14y ago
For this particular feature; there are plenty that Chrome doesn't support fully (IndexedDB) or at all (CSS calc) that those other browsers have had for quite a long time.
- EricBurnett 14y ago
  Do you mean this IndexedDB? http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb . Or this calc? http://caniuse.com/#feat=calc http://caniuse.com/#feat=calc . They look pretty supported to me, remembering that they're both based on a draft specs.
  - MatthewPhillips 14y ago
    Calc must be new; this is great, this means Firefox, WebKit, and IE10 all have it. IndexedDB is using an outdated spec more than 8 months old.
  - khuey 14y ago
    Have you actually tried to use IndexedDB in Chrome? It's on an outdated spec draft from around a year ago.
- randomfool 14y ago
  CSS calc has been in Chrome (behind a -webkit prefix) since Chrome 19. http://caniuse.com/calc http://caniuse.com/calc
msujaws 14y ago
Firefox got support for getUserMedia in July... https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/getusermedia-is-ready-to-roll/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/getusermedia-is-ready-to-r... Using Nightly go to about:config and enable the media.navigator.enabled pref, then you can test it out at this page: https://people.mozilla.com/~anarayanan/gum_test.html https://people.mozilla.com/~anarayanan/gum_test.html
- jonknee 14y ago
  > Using Nightly go to about:config and enable the media.navigator.enabled pref, then you can test it out at this page That's not support. Support is on the shipping main branch. Chrome has had support for a while too if you wanted to jump through some hoops.

albertzeyer 14y ago

Why is that half-done? What should it have done instead? Maybe you have some USB camera you want to plug in when some site makes such request.

revelation 14y ago
Tell me I don't have a webcam connected and inform me that this site requires one, and possibly wait for me to connect one. Right now, I get the permission bar, click "accept" and it fails silently. And the "none" thing is really just a bad taste; you don't offer UI elements when they don't do anything. (I didn't try, but I think that permission dialog wouldn't even recognize it when I connected a camera after it opened)
- hnriot 14y ago
  I don't agree, as others have said, this dialog could have served to remind you that you had forgotten to plug in your USB webcam. These days, no camera is surely an edge case that I think they handled fine.

binarycrusader 14y ago

Opera is not the only browser to support resuming downloads. With the appropriate server headers and local state, Safari and FireFox can also resume downloads.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
I believe Chrome does as well.