Question: What "take a picture" really do?

[maximus]

I have one question, which came with mobile phone (android) testing.
What do the action "take a picture" when you choose upload on the bar?
In me case it open dialog "do it with...", where can i choose camera, gallery, astro file browser and some else.
I'm not sure but i think there should be directly camera action, which can be done using HTML5.

In most modern browsers <input type="file" accept="image/*;capture=camera"> do this job.
But there is some javascript code using "anywhere-upload-input-camera".

Finally me question is: Can "take a picture" open the camera directly?

Thank you

 

[Rodolfo]

Less than one year ago mobile browsers needed an special button to call the camera. Lot has changed since then.

 

[maximus]

I find some of this there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9431475/html5-camera-access

Can you be more specific in this issue?

 

[Rodolfo]

I already mentioned. The take photo was a direct shortcut but now browsers implement it as a menu chooser. Like I said, things changed.

 

[maximus]

Yes, true.

I find little hack to use it directly using getUserMedia (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/).
But at all is it true, we cannot run directly camera on mobile devices.

 

[maximus]

Some plans to implement this feature?

 

[Rodolfo]

Some plans to implement this feature?

No plans to add this.