- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:18:28 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
Y'know, it could be *really* simple, and done purely from a UA. For example, instead of plain clicking on the <Browse...> button, do a modifier+click (like Option+click on a Mac) -- this would bring up a dialog asking for the data source. The user chooses "Microphone" for example, and a sound-recording dialog appears. If the MacIE team wanted to implement that, they could do so without need of any forms-enhancement spec. It's just a matter of sending the appropriate MIME type for an audio file, assuming it's known what the server wants. Well OK, maybe we do need one small enhancement: wanttype="audio/basic". So we'd have something like this: <INPUT TYPE=file NAME=foo WANTTYPE="audio/basic"> With that info, the UA would know to record sound and convert to .au format. How's that for simple and platform independent? Just specify the syntax for that one MIME-related attribute, and we're all set. The rest is up to the browser developers. -brainstormin' boo :)
Received on Monday, 28 February 2000 20:16:21 UTC