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[Aaron Wells <1385037@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

See http://dev.opera.com/articles/media-capture-in-mobile-browsers/

HTML5 adds "capture" and "accept" attributes to the file input tag, that
you can use to "capture" media from input devices on the browser:

<input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="camera">
<input type="file" accept="video/*" capture="camcorder">
<input type="file" accept="audio/*" capture="microphone">

Android & iOS both support this to some extent, and will provide a
button to open the camera or gallery app.

We should start using these when the user is detected to be on mobile.
Clearly they'd belong on the Image and Video blocks. For file upload
it's a little bit trickier, since we're willing to accept any file type.
For Android that means that the generic file input is fine (because
Android will let you access the filesystem), but for iOS we'd need to do
accept=image or accept=video. Perhaps a pre-selector element, where the
user indicates whether they want to upload a video or a picture?

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: mobile snack-sized usability

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: mahara
    Milestone: None => 1.11.0

** Tags added: mobile usability

** Tags added: snack-sized

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385037

Title:
  Support for mobile media-capture form tags

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  See http://dev.opera.com/articles/media-capture-in-mobile-browsers/

  HTML5 adds "capture" and "accept" attributes to the file input tag,
  that you can use to "capture" media from input devices on the browser:

  <input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="camera">
  <input type="file" accept="video/*" capture="camcorder">
  <input type="file" accept="audio/*" capture="microphone">

  Android & iOS both support this to some extent, and will provide a
  button to open the camera or gallery app.

  We should start using these when the user is detected to be on mobile.
  Clearly they'd belong on the Image and Video blocks. For file upload
  it's a little bit trickier, since we're willing to accept any file
  type. For Android that means that the generic file input is fine
  (because Android will let you access the filesystem), but for iOS we'd
  need to do accept=image or accept=video. Perhaps a pre-selector
  element, where the user indicates whether they want to upload a video
  or a picture?

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