> > I don't really see how the problem is the same as with synchronous > XMLHttpRequest. When you do a synchronous request nothing happens to the > event loop so an alert() dialog could never happen. I think you want > recording to continue though. Having a simple dialog stop video conferencing > for instance would be annoying. It's only script execution that needs to be > paused. I'm also not sure if I'd really want recording to stop while looking > at a page in a different tab. Again, if I'm in a conference call I'm almost > always doing tasks on the side. E.g. looking up past discussions, scrolling > through a document we're discussing, etc.
Can you clarify how the speech input element (as described in the current API sketch) is related to video conferencing or a conference call, since it doesn't really stream audio to any place other than potentially a speech recognition server and feeds the result back to the element? -- Cheers Satish