On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: >> >> For now I intend to focus on implementing the scanning UI in the browser >> and just handing the site the final product. Any thoughts of exposing a >> fine-grained control over previews and incremental results needs >> significantly more thought about how that would work on both desktop and >> mobile devices. > > I'd recommend going with <input type=file accept=image/*> for now, and > seeing where that gets us. We can always add attributes or an API if > there's a real need for more control.
For what it's worth, I think the way I would do this in Firefox is to add an addon hook for "image providers" (and maybe "video providers") which would allow us to create an WebActiity/AndroidIntent-like chooser. / Jonas