The device upload petition at:
http://www.bovik.org/devup-petition
Has been updated with a message from Tim Berners-Lee:
http://www.bovik.org/devup-petition/tbl-devup.txt
For the record, I fully support device upload without the DEVICE
attribute. It is so much better than nothing that the incremental
benefits of my device upload proposal are no more than miniscule
by comparison.
Evidently, the California Attorney General was gracious enough to
voice these concerns during some of the recent antitrust remedy
conferences. A lot of people sent Dr. Berners-Lee's comments in
to the A.G., for which they deserve our thanks. However, Microsoft
has been objecting that some things in the proposed remedy were not
raised at trial. I doubt that late evidence will have much effect
on what the judge can order pending appeal, but I hope anyone
reading this with any influence in the matter will do what needs
to be done to keep Microsoft from their strangle-hold on audio
upload plug-ins. If MSIE were to implement microphone upload, as
described by the Director of the W3C, I have no doubt that the
other browser manufacturers would quickly follow.
The project to add the feature to Mozilla:
http://www.sourcexchange.com/WishDetail?wishID=227
is progressing slowly due in part to the effects of the Gecko
re-write. I invite anyone to take a crack at it. Relevant code
excerpts are available from SourceXchange by clicking on the
"View Comments" button from the link above. And of course all
the current annotated source code is available from www.mozilla.org.
Cheers,
James