Webcam capture on web application

I need to take a picture from a webcam开发者_如何学C into a webapp (PHP5/JQuery/HTML5) but I cannot use Flash; Is there a light java applet or any alternative technology for this?.

The answer you are looking for is "HTML5 Device API", which none of the current browser, stable or beta, support it yet.

Other then that you need to write native app, or NPAPI plug-in.

Though HTML5 is not recognized by W3c. But you can use JQuery Library to access web cam from a web aliccation. See the following link http://www.xarg.org/project/jquery-webcam-plugin/ You can get source code and demo from here. How to use the code and how to deploy the code. I hope your problem will be solve. Thank you!