You could have used the device tag until 3 days ago when it was deprecated in favour of the media capture api: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/ http://w

You could have used the device tag until 3 days ago when it was deprecated in favour of the media capture api: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/ http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/ It's not implemented anywhere yet, but it is part of the spec.