Capturing Video with JavaScript
One of the big deficits in HTML for many years has been the lack of any pure HTML/JavaScript interface to the microphone and camera on a user’s machine. Up until now, most JavaScript APIs for media capture have leveraged Flash to capture audio and video. However, in the new (mostly) Flash-less mobile HTML5 world, relying on a nonexistent (on certain mobile devices) technology is no longer an answer. In recent months, the W3C’s Device API Policy Working Group has stepped in to create a specification named The HTML Media Capture API to fill this hole.
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