Promise-based getUserMedia

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 53)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Adds the API navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(), which returns a promise. As part of this feature, also release the unprefixed version of navigator.getUserMedia(), which uses callbacks.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-main/#dom-mediadevices-getusermedia
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Strongly positive
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/607439

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/MediaDevices/getUserMedia https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/10/media-devices

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