Screen capture is useful in many contexts, such as when delivering presentations, collaborating with remote colleagues, or producing local recordings. The Web Platform offers APIs to that end, allowing Web applications to capture screens, windows or tabs, and allowing the captured media to be manipulated in various productive ways.
The popularity of these APIs, and the ubiquity of the applications that use them, are a testament to the importance of the work that has been done thus far.
We believe that there is yet more untapped potential in the realm of screen capture. It is our mission to innovate further and unblock additional novel uses of screen capture, creating new business opportunities for developers and enriching the lives of users.
As part of this charter, the Screen capture Community Group is focusing its activities on producing new screen capture APIs and extending existing ones. APIs directly involving screen capture are in scope, as are APIs that would typically be used in tandem with screen capture.
The group will conduct all of its technical work in public, on GitHub repositories, with a supporting mailing list for logistical and administrative purposes.
Meetings will normally be public and open to anyone to join. Should the need arise, meetings may be restricted to Community Group participants and guests invited by the group chairs. In either case, a public summary or minutes will be made available publicly.
The group chairs can amend the charter.
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The Captured Surface Control API which was originally incubated in this community group has now been adopted to the WebRTC Working Group. Thank you all who have contributed. Your continued feedback in the specification’s new home would be much appreciated – issue have migrated here.
(The origin trial in Chrome continues – sign up is possible here.)
TPAC 2024 is fast upon us, and this year, the Screen Capture Community Group will be holding two meetings:
First meeting (1/2), 24 September 2024, 16:30–18:00 (details): A joint one between the Screen Capture CG and the WebRTC WG. We will cover both new and ongoing topics, including:
Second meeting (2/2), 27 September 2024, 11:00–12:30 (details): A standalone session for the Screen Capture CG. Unlike our typical meetings, which are usually structured discussions of newly proposed Web APIs, this session will be a free-form discussion on any topics related to screen-sharing that participants bring up. We will intentionally avoid a fixed agenda, but to kick off the conversation, here are some ideas we could discuss:
Please don’t hesitate to mail me at [email protected] with any questions you might have, or even just to mention that you’ll be dropping by.
The Element Capture API has entered origin trial in Chrome starting with milestone m121. The trial is scheduled to proceed at least until m126 (inclusive), at which point we plan to either ship the API or extend the trial.
Registration for the trial is open for all – go here to enroll.
Your feedback is eagerly expected!
The Screen Capture CG will have two meetings in TPAC 2023.
Everyone is invited to attend. If you’d like to add anything to the agenda, please mail me at [email protected].
The third meeting of the Screen Capture Community Group will take place on June 26. Depending on your timezone, the meeting will start at 10:00 PST, 13:00 ET, or 19:00 CEST.
You’re all invited to join us through this link: https://meet.google.com/mjw-ruqv-rnr
The agenda is still open – please email [email protected] with any content you would like to present.
Current agenda items include:
The poll is up for the date for our June 2023 meeting: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/el2Z067b
Votes will be tallied next on Friday.
The currently scheduled topics include:
Additional agenda items are most welcome. If you’d like to present, please email me at [email protected]
The second meeting of the Screen Capture Community Group will take place on March 21st. Depending on your timezone, the meeting would start at 09:00 PST, 12:00 ET, or 18:00 CET.
You’re all invited to join us through this link: https://meet.google.com/mjw-ruqv-rnr
The agenda is still open – please email [email protected] with any content you would like to present.
Current agenda items include:
The poll is up for the date for our March 2023 meeting: https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/e99vMmJe
Votes will be tallied next Monday.
Agenda items are most welcome. If you’d like to present, please email me at [email protected], and I’ll give you edit-permissions for the slides deck.
Last week we had our first meeting – thanks to all those who participated!
The Screen Capture Community Group has been launched:
Screen capture is useful in many contexts, such as when delivering presentations, collaborating with remote colleagues, or producing local recordings. The Web Platform offers APIs to that end, allowing Web applications to capture screens, windows or tabs, and allowing the captured media to be manipulated in various productive ways.
The popularity of these APIs, and the ubiquity of the applications that use them, are a testament to the importance of the work that has been done thus far.
We believe that there is yet more untapped potential in the realm of screen capture. It is our mission to innovate further and unblock additional novel uses of screen capture, creating new business opportunities for developers and enriching the lives of users.
As part of this charter, the Screen capture Community Group is focusing its activities on producing new screen capture APIs and extending existing ones. APIs directly involving screen capture are in scope, as are APIs that would typically be used in tandem with screen capture.
The group will conduct all of its technical work in public, on GitHub repositories, with a supporting mailing list for logistical and administrative purposes.
Meetings will normally be public and open to anyone to join. Should the need arise, meetings may be restricted to Community Group participants and guests invited by the group chairs. In either case, a public summary or minutes will be made available publicly.
The group chairs can amend the charter.
In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.
This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2022-12-19 by Elad Alon. The following people supported its creation: Elad Alon, Harald Alvestrand, Francois Beaufort, Tsahi Levent-Levi, Simon Hangl. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.
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