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>I am not sure what Mobile OS/browser gives acces to the camera control All modern mobile browsers do. >but Instagram does more than takes a picture. Be more
by papsosouid 14y ago
>I am not sure what Mobile OS/browser gives acces to the camera control
All modern mobile browsers do.
>but Instagram does more than takes a picture.
Be more specific then, I assumed that's what you thought couldn't be done. Tell me what it is you think can't be done so I don't have to guess.
- woobar 14y ago> Tell me what it is you think can't be done Actually, you did not ask about'what can't be done', but 'example of anything other than a game that is actually "taking advantage of the underlying hardware and OS"'. Instagram takes advantage of the underlying OS and hardware when it uses photo filters. Same as native games do. Could it be done in browser? Probably. Same as games.
- papsosouid 14y ago>Actually, you did not ask about'what can't be done', but 'example of anything other than a game that is actually "taking advantage of the underlying hardware and OS"'. You left off the rest of the sentence though, the part that said "in some way that the browser can not". >Instagram takes advantage of the underlying OS and hardware when it uses photo filters. Same as native games do. Could it be done in browser? Probably. Same as games. The difference is that photo filters can be done, quite trivially, in the browser. Many games can not, because the performance of the javascript engines and the limited hardware accelerated drawing.
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- woobar 14y ago> All modern mobile browsers do At the time of Instagram release that wasn't the case.
- papsosouid 14y agoI don't recall suggesting that Instagram made a mistake. I was responding to the idea that right now, apps other than games exist which take advantage of the OS in ways the browser can not.