I read some time ago about the possibility to use media stream from a USB or rs232 device with the <device> tag such as a webcam with HTML5.
Is there a web browser that supports this right now? (i.e. nighty builds of Chrome, Webkit…)
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Now we have released our modified WebKit library so that you can test these features yourself. Note that the “device” element is no longer available in the WhatWG spec, it has been replaced with a JavaScript API (navigator.getUserMedia(…)).
You can read more at: https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/beyond-html5-experiment-real-time-communication-browser