Fwd: Media Capture

Any thoughts on this?


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> Resent-From: public-html@w3.org
> From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
> Date: December 8, 2010 17:13:29 GMT+01:00
> To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
> Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Frederick Hirsch <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Media Capture
> archived-at: <http://www.w3.org/mid/20101208161329.21b20d98@miranda.g5n.co.uk>
> 
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:56:38 +0100
> Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote:
> 
>> Since then, the DAP WG has been editing a simple draft[1] matching
>> the discussion, as planned. There is, however, some hesitation on one
>> crucial, if somewhat bikeshed-shaped, point: syntax. 
> 
> Opening another pot of paint, have you considered using the role
> attribute which is already part of HTML5, also defined as an XHTML
> 1.1 module, and has a mapping to RDF?
> 
> Something like:
> 
> 	<input type="file"
> 	  name="motion-mugshot"
> 	  accept="video/ogg"
> 	  role="capture-audio capture-video">
> 
> DAP would define a set of (case-insensitive) terms that can appear in
> the role attribute. Implementations can experiment by using full
> (case-sensitive) URIs to identify their oddball capture devices:
> 
> 	<input type="file"
> 	  name="motion-mugshot"
> 	  accept="video/ogg"
> 	  role="capture-audio http://example.com/smellyvision">
> 
> -- 
> Toby A Inkster
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> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
> 
> 

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