Device Upload Petition

[Mike Sheldon]

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
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