On Nov 10, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Ian Hickson 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?
Many modern platforms (well, at least iPhone and Mac OS X) have APIs
to manipulate a system notion of media gallery. We have considered
exposing the ability to choose from the user's media collection via
<input type="file">, possibly keying off of accept="image/*" or "audio/
*" or "video/*".
I think an API to freely add and remove items from the media
collection is something we might not be comfortable with exposing to
the Web, for security reasons. We might consider an API to save to the
media collection as long as there is user control.
Regards,
Maciej
