- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:54:27 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 01:35a -0500 02/29/00, Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > > > 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"> > >I might be missing something, but wouldn't that WANTTYPE duplicate >the ACCEPT attribute which has been in the specs since 1995 I couldn't remember off the top of my head, so I just made up a name. But yeah, ACCEPT is appropriate. >(RFC 1867, later adopted to HTML 3.2)? Though it seems that no >browser vendor cared to implement it. > > > With that info, the UA would know to record sound and convert to > > .au format. > >Well that's a different issue. An input field is just an input field, >and browsers may provide whatever methods they like to let users >input data. Conceivably a UA could provide, as one alternative, >such an interface. Nothing needs to be added to HTML for that purpose. Yeah, that was really my point. -Walter :)
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