The subject is that of a research group attempting to define an extension to HTML, specifically an extension to INPUT TYPE="FILE", so as to allow input from arbitrary hardware devices such as microphones. As near as I can tell, Microsoft is not affiliated with this group in any way. The full proposal is at: http://www.bovik.org/device-upload.html Microsoft is mentioned here, but only to say that they had implemented the proposal in such a way that involved "overly complex, nonstandard HTML client extensions" and "even then are only able to serve customers using one of the two major browsers on the Microsoft/Intel platform". Can anyone here say ActiveX? Not a "new" extension to HTML by Microsoft, just continued use of a bad extension. If you want to petition that the proposal be made a standard: http://www.bovik.org/devup-petition/ Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Lucas Vogel Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 15:18 To: plug1 Subject: Device Upload Petition Looks like M$ is trying to alter HTML tags... http://www.bovik.org/devup-petition/tnx.html?endorser=Lucas+Vogel&email=lvog el@exponent.com&affiliation=Exponent+Failure+Analysis+and+Associates&mail=on <>