Desktop browsers

Most modern desktop browsers have the ability to connect directly to hardware webcams, making it unnecessary to run a desktop program to operate your spectrometer.

Browsers that are confirmed to work include:

• Firefox
• Chrome 21+
• Opera
• any browser which supports the HTML5 getUserMedia() call

Mobile browsers

On smartphones, several browsers support the HTML5 webcam API, and connect directly to the camera of the phone.

• Firefox on Android
• Opera on Android
• Chrome on Android
• Bowser on iOS

Flash-based fallback

A Flash-based video capture system is partially implemented, and should soon work for browsers without the MediaStream API.