Google really is pushing forward what browsers do - I am not sure if that's a good thing. Especially in regards to privacy and security. Maybe they should separate browser from OS in some meaningful way. These capabilities should not be easily available in your ordinary web browser. Same with WebUSB that hackers can use to mount your USB drives and read data or eg. steal passwords from things like ubikeys... I know the analogy is a bit flawed, but it reminds me of all the power that Active X provided back in the day, when Microsoft tried to make the browser the OS.
Show HN: Live Face Detector Using Chrome's Native FaceDetector API
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#12I need a butt detector to launch my startup, Buttstagram.
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#13At the risk of sounding grumpy, this is not someting that should be in a browser IMO. Browsers have become monstrosities that only a few giants can maintain, by including everything and the kitchen sink. Face detection is a perfect example of what should be a plugin. I'm not saying it has to be a horrible old school NPAPI plugin. It could be a sandboxed app, it could be a WebAssembly library, and so on. Edit: nothing…
Agreed this is out of control now! And yet still, 20 years later, I can’t scroll the body of a table whilst keeping the header and columns aligned.
Surely things like that, or a src attribute for csv files, or even rudimentary charts and graphs for tables don’t even get considered.
Suppose fixing 20year old issues just aren’t as sexy as usb access from the browser...
As time goes on I connect less and less with browser developers.
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#14Google really is pushing forward what browsers do - I am not sure if that's a good thing. Especially in regards to privacy and security. Maybe they should separate browser from OS in some meaningful way. These capabilities should not be easily available in your ordinary web browser. Same with WebUSB that hackers can use to mount your USB drives and read data or eg. steal passwords from things like ubikeys... I know t…
That is what ChromeOS is all about.
Re: Show HN: Live Face Detector Using Chrome's Native FaceDetector API
#15At the risk of sounding grumpy, this is not someting that should be in a browser IMO. Browsers have become monstrosities that only a few giants can maintain, by including everything and the kitchen sink. Face detection is a perfect example of what should be a plugin. I'm not saying it has to be a horrible old school NPAPI plugin. It could be a sandboxed app, it could be a WebAssembly library, and so on. Edit: nothing…
Agreed this is out of control now! And yet still, 20 years later, I can’t scroll the body of a table whilst keeping the header and columns aligned. Surely things like that, or a src attribute for csv files, or even rudimentary charts and graphs for tables don’t even get considered. Suppose fixing 20year old issues just aren’t as sexy as usb access from the browser... As time goes on I connect less and less with brows…
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#16"What could possibly go wrong?"
Re: Show HN: Live Face Detector Using Chrome's Native FaceDetector API
#17Safari on iOS already has face detection. But I don’t think there is an API for it.
If you can’t see well and so enable VoiceOver, when a webpage opens the camera to take a photo the phone will what it sees, “like face in centre of photo”.
It’s very usefully for blind of partially sighted people to take selfies.
Here is a reference: https://www.apple.com/uk/accessibility/iphone/vision/
Edit: added link