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by nl 5143 days ago
Actually...

HTML5 Media Capture[1] provides extensions to input tags to allow access to camera and microphone devices, eg:

<input type="file" accept="video/* ;capture=camcorder">

<input type="file" accept="audio/* ;capture=microphone">

It isn't widely implemented though (just in the Android Browser, Chrome on Android and Firefox Mobile).

The recommended way is to use the getUserMedia Javascript APIs. http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ is a good guide.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/
1 comments
sneak 5143 days ago
semicolon-delimited attr value, and "camcorder"!

Great to see that the future is being ushered in in a coordinated, organized, well-thought-out manner. Ugh.

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mdaniel 5143 days ago
That syntax came from MIME and has been present in email, newsgroups and the web for as long as I can remember. The server sends content-type headers delimited with MIME attributes, the browser sends accept headers and inside the pages one will often find a meta tag with its content attribute delimited that way.
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