[html5] Camera tag?

Rik Sagar org.whatwg at sagar.org
Wed Sep 9 18:30:08 PDT 2009


Not really what I was getting at!

I'm suggesting an element that allows the _capture_ of video or still images
- from a camera (webcam) accessible from the browser.  The video or still
image can then be transferred to a server.

Thanks,
Rik



On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jens Meiert <jens at meiert.com> wrote:

> > Any thoughts about adding a camera or webcam tag to the HTML5 spec?
>
> It seems the “video” [1] element [2] might be fine for this?
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#video
> [2] http://annevankesteren.nl/2004/05/tags-vs-elements
>
> --
> Jens Meiert
> http://meiert.com/en/
>



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