Re: [whatwg] Add naturalOrientation property to img

2011-08-26 Thread James Salsman
Maybe someone should ask the browser vendors how many img formats they support and what the code footprint memory overhead would be for adding rotation support for those which are likely to need it at whatever confidence level you feel is appropriate. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Glenn

Re: [whatwg] Recording interface (Re: Peer-to-peer communication, video conferencing, and related topics (2))

2011-04-09 Thread James Salsman
Sorry for the top posting, but I would like to reiterate my considered opinion that Speex be supported for recording. It is the standard format available from Adobe Flash recording, low bandwidth, open source and unencumbered, efficient, and it is high quality for its bandwidth. On Tue, Mar 29,

Re: [whatwg] default audio upload format (was Fwd: The Media Capture API Working Draft)

2010-09-03 Thread James Salsman
Most of the MIME types that support multiple channels and sample rates have registered parameters for selecting those. Using a PCM format such as audio/L16 (CD/Red Book audio) as a default would waste a huge amount of network bandwidth, which translates directly into money for some users. On

Re: [whatwg] default audio upload format (was Fwd: The Media Capture API Working Draft)

2010-09-01 Thread James Salsman
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Roger Hågensen resca...@emsai.net wrote:  On 2010-08-31 22:11, James Salsman wrote: Does anyone object to form input type=file accept=audio/*;capture=microphone using Speex as a default, as if it were specified accept=audio/x-speex;quality=7;bitrate=16000

[whatwg] default audio upload format (was Fwd: The Media Capture API Working Draft)

2010-08-31 Thread James Salsman
file formats, some of which are encumbered; etc. -- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:08 AM Subject: Re: The Media Capture API Working Draft To: Ilkka Oksanen ilkka.oksa...@nokia.com, Frederick Hirsch frederick.hir...@nokia.com

Re: [whatwg] video application/octet-stream

2010-07-20 Thread James Salsman
I would like to speak up for sniffing because I believe in the robustness principle. I don't know why people who are capable of coding hundreds of lines of dense, uncommented javascript can't get their web servers to declare the correct type of their media files, but it happens so often that I

Re: [whatwg] HTML Media Capture prepared for publication

2010-07-17 Thread James Salsman
, too. Sincerely, James Salsman On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:47 AM, ingmar.kli...@telekom.de wrote: Hi Dom, I think we also briefly tackled the issue of making the FormatData attribute of the MediaFile interface read-only (in File all attributes are read-only [1]). Was there a decision against

Re: [whatwg] HTML Device element status

2010-07-06 Thread James Salsman
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@opera.com wrote: There are some advantages with input, but overall the design is ugly. input type=file is buffered, which would seem to exclude the possibility of onchange=form.submit() in any of its forms' elements, but is otherwise

Re: [whatwg] input type=location proposals

2010-06-25 Thread James Salsman
rare that example seems contrived.) Regards, James Salsman

Re: [whatwg] Do we really need a device element?

2010-06-16 Thread James Salsman
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius svartma...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/14/10, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: ... I [had been earlier] persuaded that the device element is unnecessary, given recent announcements for the input type=file accept=...;source=... type

Re: [whatwg] Do we really need a device element?

2010-06-14 Thread James Salsman
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:36 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: ... I [was] persuaded that the device element is unnecessary, given recent announcements for the accept=...;source=... type specification proposed by Android and Firefox developers.  Does anyone have any reasons

Re: [whatwg] Do we really need a device element?

2010-06-13 Thread James Salsman
svartma...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/12/10, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Bjartur, real-time streaming audio uploads enable pronunciation assessment for language instruction during multiplayer online roleplaying games such as those by http://www.8dworld.com Yes, applications may need audio

Re: [whatwg] Do we really need a device element?

2010-06-12 Thread James Salsman
Bjartur, real-time streaming audio uploads enable pronunciation assessment for language instruction during multiplayer online roleplaying games such as those by http://www.8dworld.com input type=file accept=audio/x-speex;quality=(0-10);bitrate=... is more important, and accept=audio/ogg

Re: [whatwg] input type=upload (not just files) proposal

2010-06-09 Thread James Salsman
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Rob Evans r...@mtn-i.com wrote: I think an interesting addition to the input type=upload would be a script-accessible progress value. Either as a percentage, or probably more useful two values, one being the size of the upload and the other being current

Re: [whatwg] What is not possible with HTML5

2010-06-07 Thread James Salsman
bug on this -- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46135 -- which has been open for a whole decade, with 37 votes, and even had a patch back when it was first opened. Does anyone know how I can update my email address in Mozilla's bugzilla? I am no longer at bovik.org. --James Salsman

Re: [whatwg] WebSockets: UDP

2010-06-04 Thread James Salsman
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:19 AM, James May wha...@fowlsmurf.net wrote: Couldn't SCTP/DCCP (or a variant) over UDP (for NAT compatibility) work? No, DCCP is much newer than most NAT hardware in operation. When a client user agent is sending UDP, client-initiated TCP streams such as HTTP or HTTPS

Re: [whatwg] WebSockets: UDP

2010-06-01 Thread James Salsman
I agree UDP sockets are a legitimate, useful option, with applications far beyond games. In most cases TCP is fine, but adaptive bit-rate vocoders, for example, can use packet loss as an adaptation parameter, and chose only to retransmit some of the more essential packets in cases of congestion.

Re: [whatwg] device element, streams and peer-to-peer connections

2010-05-31 Thread James Salsman
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Mark Frohnmayer mark.frohnma...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:01 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: ... With phase vocoder time shifting, UDP delivery as per http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-device/#stream-api would be far superior in quality

Re: [whatwg] device element, streams and peer-to-peer connections

2010-05-30 Thread James Salsman
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Mark Frohnmayer mark.frohnma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:26 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be appropriate to allow selection between reliable delivery involving delay and unreliable delivery with the shorter delay

Re: [whatwg] device element, streams and peer-to-peer connections

2010-05-27 Thread James Salsman
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Mark Frohnmayer mark.frohnma...@gmail.com wrote: There has been some limited discussion about the peer-to-peer section as it relates to real-time peer to peer gaming applications:

Re: [whatwg] device element, streams and peer-to-peer connections

2010-05-27 Thread James Salsman
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Mark Frohnmayer mark.frohnma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:22 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Why is relying on TCP for reliable delivery inferior to asking applications to re-implement reliable transmission? In real-time

Re: [whatwg] Speech input element

2010-05-19 Thread James Salsman
because they were said to be device dependent, which was completely meaningless, really. Regards, James Salsman

[whatwg] forwarded: Google opens VP8 video codec

2010-05-19 Thread James Salsman
From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com Subject: [Wikitech-l] VP8 freed! To: Wikimedia developers, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List http://www.webmproject.org/ http://openvideoalliance.org/2010/05/google-frees-vp8-codec-for-html5-the-webm-project/?l=en

Re: [whatwg] Speech input element

2010-05-17 Thread James Salsman
://www.springerlink.com/content/l0385t6v425j65h7/ Please let me know your thoughts. Best regards, James Salsman - http://talknicer.com/

[whatwg] syncronous device upload

2010-05-08 Thread James Salsman
in http://www.w3.org/TR/device-upload ? I am no longer affiliated with Cisco. My new contact information which I would like included there is: James Salsman device-upl...@talknicer.com or jsals...@gmail.com http://talknicer.com Thank you.