Among other things, it doesn't yet define what codecs would be used in the audio capture. There's also a lot of comments in the draft that amount to "we'll figu

Among other things, it doesn't yet define what codecs would be used in the audio capture. There's also a lot of comments in the draft that amount to "we'll figure out how this part would work later." http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ is probably a better link if you're interested in this stuff. Phono is intended to be a unified jQuery API for real time communications (audio, video, chat, screen sharing). The Flash movie is an implementation detail -- the API is intended to be implementable with other media capture methods when they're available, including HTML5.