- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:20:21 -0800
- To: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
My first post here. Jumping right in: Boy it'd be handy to have a way to signify that an element is playing audio. We're just not seeing an outright win with the <audio> element. It'd be great to be able to hit "pause" in the browser, and have the DOM reflect which <object> elements and/or DOM elements are responsible for audio streaming out of the speakers. Something like: "aria-playing: audio" would be a big help in that regard. Second issue: The intent tag. This seems to be moving forward under the name web intents. http://webintents.org/ We're seeing some micro-evolution with <input type=file>. That little tag, so very old, has turned into <input type=file style="display: none">. Mozilla and WebKit are enabling ".click()" on input type=file. That's a natural step from: <input type="file" style="height: 50px; width: 100px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; z-index: 1" /> <button style="height: 50px; width: 100px; z-index: 0;">My handler</button> I'm trying my best to help the introduction be a smooth operation: <button onclick="if(this.intent) window.navigator.startActivity(this.intent)" role="intent:share">Share a file</button> I don't know how the group works, or how to proceed, but those are two issues on my radar. Web Intents are happening, and from what I've seen of OS integration, they should happen. Following (or on their own) my advice, Intent registration will work with fallback content, so the <intent /> tag is no longer going to be just a self-closing tag. It'll have readable text with a backup link in it. I thought I had things pinned down there, but it occurred to me that I still need role attributes for the invocation tags. And thus my demonstration of using a CURIE with the "intent:" prefix. No rush on these two issues, but I'll keep bringing them up until I'm satisfied that we have some practical solutions. Audio is going to be evolving in a big way, as it's become quite programmable. -Charles
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