Re: Standards development (was HTML forms)

2000-03-31 Thread James P. Salsman
Dan, Thanks for your questions: > Why are you so intent on getting this put into W3C specs, > and into implementation on user agents? My goal has never been to get published in any particular organizations' specs; only to get the major browsers to implement microphone upload suitable for la

RE: Standards development (was HTML forms)

2000-03-31 Thread James P. Salsman
Jony, Thanks for your message: > In my experience, the proper way to develop standards is to > begin with a private implementation. Private? Anyone is welcome to my Mozilla mods if they will try to port them to Gecko. Most browsers already implement file upload. The only difficulty is in i

Re: Standards development (was HTML forms)

2000-03-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:05:01 PST, Walter Ian Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > And to do so does not necessarily require building an entire browser. > Since the input "widget" is just one part of a page, you only need to > prototype that one widget. You can do it in any RAD environment. Make >

Re: Standards development (was HTML forms)

2000-03-30 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 08:25a +0200 03/31/00, Jonathan Rosenne didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >In my experience, the proper way to develop standards is to begin >with a private implementation. And to do so does not necessarily require building an entire browser. Since the input "widget" is just one pa

RE: Standards development (was HTML forms)

2000-03-30 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
In my experience, the proper way to develop standards is to begin with a private implementation. Only with practical experience can sufficient understanding be achieved to enable the writing of a good standard. Nearly all prevalent standards have followed this course, including HTML. An example