On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:36:36 +0100, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
Le lundi 09 novembre 2009 à 20:08 +0000, Ian Hickson a écrit :
> Some use cases:
> […]
> * Ability to write a Web-based photo management application that
handles
> the user's photos on the user's computer
> * Ability to expose audio files to native media players
> * Ability to write a Web-based media player that indexes the user's
media
Note that these three use cases would be potentially better addressed by
the potential Media/Gallery API the group is supposed to work on
(“Gallery API, an API to manage the local media file storage” in our
charter [1]).
Wouldn't such an API be over-specialisation?
Depends how deeply people care about specific types. It seems the general
feeling in HTML is that knowing something is a video, rather than just an
embedded object, is enough to add an element for it, so probably not
although one would *hope* that there were a general framework behind such
an API to allow mutiple (over-)specialised access APIs to be developed as
deemed useful.
cheers
Chaals
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