Further explanation from Apple...
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From: "David Singer" <sin...@apple.com>
To: "Arthur Barstow" <art.bars...@nokia.com>
Cc: "Maciej Stachowiak" <m...@apple.com>, "Doug Schepers"
<schep...@w3.org>, "Philippe Le Hegaret" <p...@w3.org>, "Charles
McCathieNevile" <cha...@opera.com>, "Edward O'Connor" <eocon...@apple.com>
Subject: Re: CfC: to add Speech API to Charter; deadline January 19
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:19:54 +0100
That's fine. Sorry, I am in Europe (between the said tracking meeting,
and the 3gpp meeting, so I only just saw the message. To save me digging
around and finding the lists, and/or finding that they don't accept emails
from non-members, could someone volunteer to forward to the list?
On Jan 27, 2012, at 13:39 , Arthur Barstow wrote:
[ + Charles (other WG Chair) and PLH (I think Doug is traveling this
week) ]
This is good feedback that should be shared with the WG so I would
appreciate it if you or someone else at Apple would please send your
comments to at least the group's member list although the public list is
my preference. Can this please be done today?
-Art
On 1/27/12 3:04 AM, ext David Singer wrote:
Hi Art
following up to Ted's message, I think I have three concerns at this
time.
1. I think there is some temptation to have WebApps take on any new
API work, because of course web applications could indeed use almost
anything. But that risks losing the focus of the WebApps group as the
place where work that is uniquely needed, or most needed to "enable
improved client-side application development on the Web" [webapps
charter]. Speech is here a user-interface, input/output mechanism, not
really specific to that domain.
2. Historically, the user interface to the web was a virtual
keyboard/mouse, and quite wide variation in physical instantiation has
been possible (and used). There is a lot of temptation to make specific
provision of other input/output methods, but doing so brings two large
issues when the content then ties itself to those particular
input/output methods, that I don't think the W3C has really got to
grips with: what happens to content portability (is the method
available or usable on all platforms?), and what happens to
accessibility (are there alternative modalities available for those for
whom this method is inaccessible?). I raised this concern about other
UI method-specific APIs under consideration, and I think it's still
largely unexplored.
2. Speech is an area with IPR -- it's been an active research area for
decades; we may have some. Without doing a lot more work I don't know
the extent to which the proposed work would encounter IPR, but I think
it would be prudent to think about that. It may be best to have the
work done in a less general-purpose WG (though, as I say above, I don't
think WebApps should really be seen as general-purpose), and actively
seek to set a scope and a membership that minimize issues down the road.
I'm sorry this has taken a while; for me, the do-not-track meeting
proved rather time-consuming.
Best wishes, I hope this helps
On Jan 19, 2012, at 20:02 , Arthur Barstow wrote:
David, Maciej - what is Apple's position on this proposal?
I would greatly appreciate it, if you would please reply on
public-webapps by January 19 or if you need a couple of days
extension, please let me know.
-Thanks, Art
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CfC: to add Speech API to Charter; deadline January 19
Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:36:21 +0000
Resent-From: <public-webapps@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:31:06 -0500
From: ext Arthur Barstow<art.bars...@nokia.com>
To: public-webapps<public-webapps@w3.org>
CC: <public-xg-htmlspe...@w3.org>
Glen Shires and some others at Google proposed [1] that WebApps add
Speech API to WebApps' charter and they put forward the Speech
Javascript API Specification [2] as as a starting point. Members of
Mozilla and Nuance have voiced various levels of support for this
proposal. As such, this is a Call for Consensus to add Speech API to
WebApps' charter.
Positive response to this CfC is preferred and encouraged and silence
will be considered as agreeing with the proposal. The deadline for
comments is January 19 and all comments should be sent to
public-webapps
at w3.org.
-AB
[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1696.html
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/att-1696/speechapi.html
David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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