FW: new input type please

Please read from bottom to top.

Thanks.

Aldo Luciano
809-595-1724 @ 245 
mailto:aldo.luciano@acs-inc.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian B. Jacobs [mailto:ij@w3.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:25 AM
To: Luciano, Aldo
Subject: RE: new input type please


On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 14:14, Luciano, Aldo wrote:
> Thanks for replying,
> 
> The voice project you are developing looks great.
> 
> I think speech needs too much resources, what I was asking was something
> simpler.
> 
> Just the way  <input type="file"> works, If you create a <input
> type="recordsound">
> and let the browsers do that hard work and render it, that would be nice.
> 
> Thanks again for replying, people like me from 3rd world (Dominican
> Republic)
> wouldn't expect such a quick answer.

You're welcome! 

My sense is that the HTML Working Group would probably not
take on work that seems to overlap with the work of the
Voice WG. However, you should feel free to make your
suggestion on www-html@w3.org.

 - Ian


> 
> Aldo Luciano
> 809-595-1724 @ 245 
> mailto:aldo.luciano@acs-inc.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian B. Jacobs [mailto:ij@w3.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 8:55 AM
> To: Luciano, Aldo
> Cc: w3t-pr@w3.org
> Subject: Re: new input type please
> 
> 
> Aldo,
> 
> Have a look at what W3C's Voice Browser Working Group [1]
> is working on for enabling voice interaction on the Web.
> 
>  - Ian
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Voice/
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 21:41, Luciano, Aldo wrote:
> > Hi, my name is Aldo Luciano from Dominican Republic, sorry if this was
not
> > the proper address I should write to.
> > 
> > Web pages do not provide input from microphone, if you create something
> like
> > <input type="microphone"> it would create many posibilities.
> > 
> > After all, the mic is an input device, why don't we use it?
> > 
> > This kind of tag could present some 'record', 'stop', 'play', 'rewind'
> > buttons when rendered by browsers, the recorded sound could be writen in
a
> > temp folder and when submitted it would work like <input type="file">.
> > 
> > Please forward this idea to the techies.
> > 
> > Thanks for your time,
> > 
> > Aldo Luciano
> > 809-595-1724 @ 245 
> > mailto:aldo.luciano@acs-inc.com
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