What web browser supports <device> tag HTML5?.

Question

I read some time ago about the possibility to use media stream from a USB or rs232 device with the tag such as a webcam with HTML5?.

Is there a web browser that supports this right now?. (nighty builds of chrome, webkit...)

Thanks.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no browsers support the device APIs yet. The specification seems to be in a rather early stage and can be found here - http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-device/

Ericsson Labs did a blog post with some snippets of code which is great, but there's no playground to try these out.

Another related question was asked on SO last year, but looks like things haven't changed much since.

However, you might find this interesting - nothing production worthy but still fun. This blog post talks about using the <video> tag to stream from a webcam via VLC.