- From: Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:30:13 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WHAT Working Group <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizelaar@mozilla.com>, Benjamin Smedberg <benjamin@smedbergs.us>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
Does providing a means to scan-to-the-web make web developers a new group for patent trolls to target? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/scanning-documents-patent-trolls-want-you-pay Rick On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > > >> > > >> For now I intend to focus on implementing the scanning UI in the > > >> browser and just handing the site the final product. Any thoughts of > > >> exposing a fine-grained control over previews and incremental results > > >> needs significantly more thought about how that would work on both > > >> desktop and mobile devices. > > > > > > I'd recommend going with <input type=file accept=image/*> for now, and > > > seeing where that gets us. We can always add attributes or an API if > > > there's a real need for more control. > > > > For what it's worth, I think the way I would do this in Firefox is to > > add an addon hook for "image providers" (and maybe "video providers") > > which would allow us to create an WebActiity/AndroidIntent-like chooser. > > Yeah, that seems eminently reasonable. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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