from the W3C newsletter: The Media Capture API Note Published
22 March 2012 | Archive http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9394 The Device APIs Working Group has published a Group Note of "The Media Capture API." This specification defined an Application Programming Interface (API) that provided access to the audio, image and video capture capabilities of the device. Development on it has stopped, and further work is taking place as part of “getusermedia: Getting access to local devices that can generate multimedia streams”. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity. http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-media-capture-api-20120322/ http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/ Not sure what will happen to image capture as I quick read of the getUserMedia shows just audio and video.