Re: CfC: Last Call for HTML Media Capture; deadline Dec 1st

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> wrote:
> Le jeudi 18 novembre 2010 à 12:47 +0100, Anne van Kesteren a écrit :
>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:07:31 +0100, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
>> wrote:
>> > As such, the chairs propose it be published as a Last Call Working Draft
>> > and this is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to do so:
>> >     http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/
>>
>> I think the dependency with HTML5 should be sorted out before going to
>> Last Call.
>
> Could you clarify what you mean by sorting out the dependency with
> HTML5? Is your concern that the spec overrides something that HTML5
> defines (the accept attribute content model)?
>
>> I am personally also not sure that putting the capture hint in the MIME
>> type is really the right way to go. It certainly complicates the
>> processing model of <input accept> as UI hint quite a bit. (I.e. from
>> simple string comparisons to full blown MIME type parsing, including
>> figuring out what to do with unknown parameters, parse errors in
>> parameters, etc.)
>
> I agree this complicates the processing of the attribute; Andrei, since
> Android (from what I understand) implements this through the MIME type
> attribute, do you have any feedback on the implementation cost of
> parsing the attribute? How are you dealing with unknown/unparseable
> parameters?
>

We just ignore them. The implementation cost of supporting this was very low.

Thanks,
Andrei

> I've also raised ISSUE-105 as a result to your message; this presumably
> hinders progress to Last Call for the time being.
>
> Dom
>
>

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