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tomlin on July 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The HTML5 boom is coming. Fast

I've always questioned it. Reason: Webcam support.

YouTube was founded on the idea that people could record via webcam and post videos immediately with no knowledge of video files, etc.

How is HTML5 solving this problem for YouTube?

icebraining on July 26, 2011 | [–]

HTML5's answer is still in unimplemented draft form: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-media-capture-20100928/

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