Dan,

I am not expert in the widget but I do know quite a lot about browsers. Those APIs are restricted access API which usually require some sort of configuration on the browser library you're using when building your product, which is a convoluted way to say that LiveCode HQ proabably needs to set something on libbrowser for this to work out of the box.

I have checked the LC source code and found that the browser initialization depends on some factory called `MCBrowserFactoryRef` which is an abstraction on the browser engine being used. In your macOS case, I don't know if it is using CEF or WebKit but it if is CEF then there is a "enable-media-stream" argument that is usually passed via command-line parameters but in our case it probably need to be passed via `t_args` in the calls to `CefExecuteProcess()`. I am sure there is a corresponding WebKit thing to do but I am not sure what.

These kind of switches are needed because Camera APIs are sensitive and can lead to privacy abuse and security exploits, so they tend to be disabled by default unless configured or asken for permission. In case of embeddable browser libraries, they usually lack the UI elements to ask for permission, so in their case it is is usually something you configure in code.

You might ask HQ to add the CEF param as a property for the widget. It might be easy to add.

On 30/11/2018 00:04, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote:
Greeting!  I am hoping someone has an answer for this…

I am working on a HTML5 web page that accesses the device's camera.  When I 
open the url in Safari (on my Mac or iOS device), I am asked if it's ok to use 
the camera and everything works perfectly!   However, if I load this same url 
in the Browser Widget (or a plain native browser), it doesn’t ask to use the 
camera and it all fails.   Is this a limitation of the implementation of the 
browser in LiveCode, or is there a setting I have to set?

Thank you!
-Dan
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