Re: ACTION-1931: Propose text for @accept on upload (Forms Working Group)

All,

In today's call we haven't yet resolved to adopt upload/@accept, but to
summarize I am in favor for the following reasons:

- internal consistency: (and here @mediatype and the child mediatype
element clash)
- consistency with HTML: @accept is in HTML [1] and HTML Living Standard
elaborates on it [2]
- support in browsers was poor until not long ago but is now coming, see
highest rated answer here [3]

I tried the demo linked from [3] and it's working with recent versions of
Chrome and Firefox. This means that it's easy to support this feature now
in browser-based XForms implementations.

-Erik

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#adef-accept
[2]
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html#file-upload-state-(type=file)
[3]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/181214/file-input-accept-attribute-is-it-useful#answer-10503561


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Ulrich Nicolas Lissé <unlisse@gmail.com>wrote:

> Nick,
>
> I'm sorry to cause trouble, but I thought we had consensus about
> xf:upload/@accept. But reading
> http://www.w3.org/2013/02/06-forms-minutes.html I realize we had no
> official approval. So, of course we should discuss this topic today.
>
> That being said, I don't see problems editing the Wiki. We have
> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/index.php?title=XForms_2.0&action=history and
> can always revert changes.
>
> Regards,
> Uli.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Nick Van den Bleeken <
> Nick.Van.den.Bleeken@inventivegroup.com> wrote:
>
>>  I have a remark not related to the text itself. But I find it really
>> dangerous to propose text in the live specification. In wiki land you don't
>> have something like branches and so all modifications are made in the same
>> version, which makes it impossible to know if the change is 'approved' by
>> the group or not.
>>
>>  Certainly in this late stage in the process I would __not__ recommend
>> making changes to spec that aren't editorial or backed with a
>> resolution/consensus.
>>
>>  Could we discuss this during the call?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Nick Van den Bleeken
>> R&D Manager
>>
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>>
>>
>>  On 13 Feb 2013, at 13:51, Ulrich Nicolas Lissé <unlisse@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Group,
>>
>> i completed https://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/xforms/actions/1931.
>> Please review
>> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/index.php?title=XForms_2.0&diff=3775&oldid=3774
>> .
>>
>> Regards,
>> Uli.
>> --
>> Ulrich Nicolas Lissé
>>
>>
>>
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