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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 156382
Owner: ----
Closed: Aug 6
Cc:
█ mgiuca@chromium.org
█ paulkinlan@chromium.org
█ sshruthi@chromium.org
█ dvallet@chromium.org
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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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<input type="file" accept="image/*"> should offer to take a photo with the camera (Desktop)

Project Member Reported by mgiuca@chromium.org, Aug 3 
Chrome Version: All
OS: All Desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Create an <input type="file" accept="image/*">.
(2) Click it.

Test code: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/WKJBVV

What is the expected result?
Offers to take a photo with the camera, or choose an image file.

What happens instead?
Just shows the normal file open dialog.

Note: This works on Android (and apparently iOS, according to this post [1]). There's no reason it shouldn't work on desktop, if the user has a camera connected.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/media/capturing-images/

Comment 1 by mgiuca@chromium.org, Aug 3 

Note: This is explicitly allowed by the standard:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input-accept

"User agents may use the value of [the accept attribute] to display a more appropriate user interface than a generic file picker. For instance, given the value image/*, a user agent could offer the user the option of using a local camera or selecting a photograph from their photo collection."

Comment 2 by paulkin...@google.com, Aug 3 

It would certainly be useful if we used the capture attribute on desktop if we didn't want to go all the way on just using image/*

Comment 3 by tkent@chromium.org, Aug 5

Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Issue 156382 is relevant.

Makes this "Available", however DOM/HTML team has no bandwidth to handle this for a while.

Comment 4 by mgiuca@chromium.org, Aug 6

Mergedinto: 156382
Status: Duplicate (was: Available)
Oh OK, I didn't realise this was actually specced (just in a different spec to HTML):

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/

In that case, marking as duplicate.
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