Camera access through browser

Solution 1:

You could try this:

<input type="file" capture="camera" accept="image/*" id="cameraInput" name="cameraInput">

but it has to be iOS 6+ to work. That will give you a nice dialogue for you to choose either to take a picture or to upload one from your album i.e.

An example can be found here: Capturing camera/picture data without PhoneGap

Solution 2:

As of 2015, it now just works.

<input type="file">

This will ask user for the upload of any file. On iOS 8.x this can be a camera video, camera photo, or a photo/video from Photo Library.

<input type="file" accept="image/*">

This is as above, but limits the uploads to photos only from camera or library, no videos.