Why does media capture require a browser? from Jonathan Chetwynd on 2013-02-15 (public-media-capture@w3.org from February 2013)

From: Jonathan Chetwynd <jay@peepo.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:17:39 +0000
To: public-media-capture@w3.org
Message-ID: <511E5193.4080501@peepo.com>

Why does media capture require a browser?
rather than solely a javascript engine**.

eg why navigator.getUserMedia?*

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd

**embedded devices may only be capable of running a JS engine, with say 
camera,
but not a browser as well.
There are of course a very large range of data capture devices beyond A/V.

*for example nodeJS using V8 has no navigator object.


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Jonathan Chetwynd
http://www.gnote.org
Eyetracking in HTML5

Received on Friday, 15 February 2013 15:17:42 UTC