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Add a file input -> the users taps it -> ios asks if they want to use an existing photo or take a new one -> take a new photo. Result on android may differ.

• sosborn 8y ago
  Interesting, they don’t seem to allow this on the desktop browser. Changing the user-agent yo a mobile browser exposes it. What a strange decision.
  • laurentl 8y ago
    I don’t use Instagram so can’t check the code, but I would guess they use something like <input type="file" accept="image/*" capture> Which does what you’d expect on a mobile device (launch the camera) but behaves differently on desktops (opens a file upload dialog). They may have decided that this behavior would confuse users.
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• geezerjay 8y ago
  How do you ensure that a client only sees a picture/video once and can't save it?
  • cschep 8y ago
    You can't ensure this natively either.
  • code_duck 8y ago
    The photos are available as publicly accessible jpgs through http. They’re not really trying to do that.