- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:39:19 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
[CCs deleted; restricting this to just www-html] At 11:32a -0800 03/01/00, James P. Salsman didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >I will start by addressing the question of whether ACCEPT alone is >sufficient for device upload, when used with the INPUT TYPE=FILE >element. The problem occurs when an image is requested on a system >with both a camera and a scanner. Having a DEVICE attribute allows >for the selection of a default, which is reasonable because some >conferencing applications might always expect camera input whereas >OCR applications would usually expect scanner input. Hmm. I don't think it needs to be an HTML attribute per se. MIME types, at least as headers in email and HTML, can take parameters. How about ACCEPT="audio/aifc; device=microphone" ? That would fit in existing HTML just fine. -Walter
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