RE: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-media-capture-20120712/ ( LC-2644)

I disagree on lack of strong use cases. On desktops, most popular mechanism
to capture images (either documents or photographs) is using document
scanners rather than cameras. You can consider whether it is possible if a
desk top is having a document scanner and not camera but HTML form mentions
capture="camera", whether the browser can invoke document scanner. 
Similarly biometrics is becoming more and more important for authentication,
be it on ATM machines, or be it a whole lot of government applications.
People are talking of biometrics even to access their own personal devices.
In view of such interest already web services are defined to access
biometric devices
(http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/upload/NIST-SP-500-288-v1.pdf). In most of
the instances the devices actually give images and if we can provide such a
facility through this specification, we will be helping a large number of
web based applications.
Best regards
N N Murthy
-----Original Message-----
From: frederick.hirsch@nokia.com [mailto:frederick.hirsch@nokia.com] 
Sent: 12 September 2012 01:30
To: NN Murthy
Cc: public-device-apis@w3.org
Subject: Re: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-media-capture-20120712/ (
LC-2644)

 Dear NN Murthy ,

The Device APIs Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1] on the
Last Call Working Draft [2] of the HTML Media Capture published on 12 Jul
2012. Thank you for having taken the time to review the document and to send
us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at
public-device-apis@w3.org if you agree with it or not before 18 September
2012. In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific
solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If such a
consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to raise a
formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during the
transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation
Track.

Thanks,

For the Device APIs Working Group,
Dave Raggett
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
W3C Staff Contacts

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/003801cd6746$ad4a9410$07dfbc30$@murthy@cmcltd.com
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-media-capture-20120712/


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