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- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:37:40 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11958 Summary: Rather than use the USB/rs232 keywords, I would recommend going with the keyword "peripheral" for any device attached to the computer. This way it would not matter if the device in question is USB, 1394, or something platform exclusive. This will future p Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dev ices OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: other Hixie drafts (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/commands.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#devices Comment: Rather than use the USB/rs232 keywords, I would recommend going with the keyword "peripheral" for any device attached to the computer. This way it would not matter if the device in question is USB, 1394, or something platform exclusive. This will future proof the input as well, since it is the data being fetched is what is important, not the connection method. Data being fetched should be broken down into what it is. For example, audio, video (just a video stream), fs, media (comprised of several media streams, such as audio, video, location, text, etc), text, image, location (GPS device), spacial (anything returning spacial data, rangefinder, radar, lidar, etc). I would also recommend using multiple types when specifying a device. For a webcam, do type="media audio video" to ensure that even if the camera does not support audio, the device chooser will then also let you choose a microphone. For playing a media file such as a music file do type="audio image text", this would allow the device to expect an audio file with cover art and lyrics. That is all I have to ramble about. I hope this is of some help. ~Trevor Downs Posted from: 71.198.1.49 -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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