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Bug 15080 - Hi I was wondering if / when some sort of implementation of a "capture" tag would be introduced. Removing the need to add extra third party code or writing your own "capture" system. Surely this would be a good addition to the spec, it would mean less spa
Summary: Hi I was wondering if / when some sort of implementation of a "capture" tag w...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y
: 15081 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-12-06 13:32 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-12-08 12:33 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-12-06 13:32:23 UTC
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Hi

I was wondering if / when some sort of implementation of a "capture" tag would
be introduced. Removing the need to add extra third party code or writing your
own "capture" system. Surely this would be a good addition to the spec, it
would mean less spam for everybody and make it easy for web developers to
implement. 


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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2011-12-06 18:33:44 UTC
*** Bug 15081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-07 22:40:19 UTC
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: What do you mean by "capture"?
Comment 3 Everett Zufelt 2011-12-08 12:23:49 UTC
I believe that you mean "CAPTCHA". CAPTCHAs create serious accessibility barriers in pretty much any meaningful implementation. Further, the only purpose of a <captcha> element, as far as I can tell, would be to offload the burden of providing and processing a CAPTCHA to the user agent. This would mean that pretty much anyone with the least bit of technical skill could circumvent the challenge.