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Subject: Re: HTML forms
From: "James P. Salsman" <bovik () best ! com>
Date: 2000-03-31 2:06:44
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David,
Thanks for your message:
> Given a microphone capturing application that can
> capture a spoken phrase to a named file, the current
> HTML file upload form element is sufficient to upload
> that voice clip.
That is absolutly right, and it captures the essense of
why the W3C should take an affirmative stance to
standardize microphone upload. Suppose you are developing
a spoken language instruction system using asyncronous
audio conferencing. If you wanted to provide for students
on several different platforms, you would have to provide
a microphone capture application for each of them. Then,
when the participants used your system, they would have
to record, save to a file, select that file, and upload it
as seperate operations, switching between the browser and
microphone capture application each time. If microphone
upload were standardized, I estimate that it would save
over ten mouse and key-clicks per upload, without having
to distribute a supplemental application for each platform.
> MIME e-mail can carry voice clips and comments between
> teacher and student perfectly well.
Only a few mail user agents provide that capability. Back
in late 1996 some language instructors on one of the distance
education lists (DEOS?) or newsgroups were claiming that
voice-email presents more trouble than it is worth, at least
for some students.
> Streaming microphone data as something which would be part
> of a standard...
The device upload spec isn't for streaming, it uses only
TCP-based HTTP POST enctype="multipart/form-data" HTML form
submissions; see:
http://www.bovik.org/device-upload.html
Cheers,
James
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