- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:12:26 +0000
On 12/13/10, Diogo Resende <dresende at thinkdigital.pt> wrote: > Bjartur, I think you misunderstood our point. The idea is to have a way of > accessing this kind of devices (not necessarily by bt or usb). The > difference of this kind of devices is they're not keyboard, mics, headphones > or cameras. > I still don't grasp how that could be useful. Please provide an example. So you've got a non-kb, mouse, headphone or camera device, say a permanent storage drive. There's no use in directly accessing the device. If the app is a video stream filter, it can declare that it takes a video stream as an input. The app only cares about the stream being of MIME type "video" and potentially the encoding, not whether the stream comes from a disk, camera, ethernet or tape. Applications should not request keyboard access. They don't have to care about keycodes and keyboard layouts. That's what OSes are for. They request text. I fail to see what's so different about other devices. In fact, applications shouldn't have to account for the fact that there's some such thing as "devices" at all. > Sent from my iPhone > Great for you.
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