- From: James Salsman <jsalsman@talknicer.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:16:58 -1000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
It could be worse! After 15 years and a handful of vendor implementations over the years, neither W3C nor WHATWG have simple microphone upload in <INPUT TYPE="file"> forms. There's http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ of course, which has been almost there since around 2007, but still doesn't say what "capture control type" to use for, e.g., the open source speex vocoder. At this point I have so much Stockholm syndrome that I'm actually enjoying the show. But I weep for what future historians of technology will have to go through to come to terms with it all. On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 9/10/14, 6:14 PM, Glenn Adams wrote: >> >> and they do not follow a consensus process. > > > Glenn, with all due respect, neither do many W3C specifications. Case in > point is http://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing/ which managed to get to REC > while ignoring feedback that pointed out that not a single implementation > actually matched the specification (including the ones produced by the > employers of the editors). And this wasn't because the implementations were > buggy, but because the specification was incomplete. > > Of course now that it's a REC getting it fixed is a major production; given > that it didn't happen back when it should have I have no hope of it > happening now. > > This is hardly an isolated incident with W3C specifications. In fact, and > very unfortunately, it's the most common thing I see happening. > > -Boris >
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