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Accessing the Webcam
In this Chapter
Learn how to access the webcam
Learn how to take the output of a webcam and display it on our page
Accessing your webcam via your browser used to involve a plug-in (pardon the profanity). That’s right. In order to connect to a webcam and gain access to its video stream, you had to rely on something primarily created in Flash or Silverlight. While that approach certainly worked for browsers that supported plug-ins, it didn’t help for the increasing number of browsers that aim to be plug-in free. This inability to natively access the webcam without relying on third-party components was certainly a gap in the HTML development story—especially on mobile devices. At least, that was the case until pretty ...
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