Re: Declarative vs. procedural

There are plenty of Javascript APIs that were added to HTML in the recent
years (under the banner of HTML5, for a sample please see
http://slides.html5rocks.com) and there is no shortage of developers
adopting these. These range from very simple (e.g. localStorage) to the
moderately complex (e.g. canvas).

On a related note, the only use case I see for purely declarative markup is
dictating into an editable field (which doesn't really need an API and can
be done with a browser voice IME). To do anything more than that and to
process results the developer needs to use our Javascript API. So I think it
should be a non-goal for our group to produce a purely declarative model for
speech recognition.

Cheers
Satish


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Charles Hemphill <charles@everspeech.com>wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I agree.  I happened upon the JavaScript developer number and then looked
> for numbers related to Web developers who know HTML and/or JavaScript.
> Unfortunately, I've not found anything yet.
>
> I did find the 2% number for JavaScript developers interesting and thought
> it worthwhile to share.   What kind of adoption can a relatively complex
> JavaScript speech API expect?  Is it better to have simple declarative
> markup that can be augmented by JavaScript for more dynamic/complex cases?
> Historically, the Web has grown successfully based on the latter approach.
>
> It seems that the latest discussions support the later approach, but it
> also
> seems to vary from week to week.  It's important to keep the target
> audience
> in mind moving forward.  The developers probably don't know about speech
> and
> they may not know JavaScript.
>
> Best regards,
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Brown [mailto:Robert.Brown@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:55 PM
> To: Charles Hemphill; public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Declarative vs. procedural
>
> I'm not sure this is the right study to draw that conclusion from. The
> language that's missing from the list is "HTML". It would be more
> conclusive
> to find out what proportion of HTML web apps include java script.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-xg-htmlspeech-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-xg-htmlspeech-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Charles Hemphill
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:05 PM
> To: public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org
> Subject: Declarative vs. procedural
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I mentioned some numbers from an article that I noticed last week:
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html.  The top
> 2
> programming languages are known by about 17% of the programmers (each).
> JavaScript is known by about 2% of programmers.  This might be surprising
> given the billions of Web pages out there.
>
> Having a JavaScript API is fine, but keep in mind that there are many HTML
> developers who know little to no JavaScript.  It's good to have a
> declarative markup option for those who specialize in markup.  The
> JavaScript API should then fit with and extend the declarative markup
> option.   That's easier to do now than to retrofit later.
>
> Best regards,
> Charles
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