The Web Platform: use it, build it

W3C

• Standards for the Web
• HTML5, CSS, JavaScript APIs, …
• Open to all to join

Web Platform Evolutions

• Progressive Web Apps
• Web Payments
• VR
• WebRTC
• Sensors
• Local interactions
• (but see also: WebAssembly, CSS Houdini, CSS Grid!, …)

PWA: 1st class mobile citizens

• Home screen integration & UI Theme customization (Web App Manifest) ()
• Programmatic offline behavior (Service Worker) ()
• Push Notifications

Profit!!!

Web Payments API for streamlined checkouts ()

var request = new PaymentRequest(
  methodData, // required payment method data
  details,    // required information about transaction
  options     // optional parameter for things like shipping, etc.
);

Metaverse

• now: WebVR () () () ()
• soon? Web Pages progressively enhanced as VR experiences

Real-Time Communications

• WebRTC brings real-time Audio Video Communication to the Web
• + P2P data
• 

Sensing

• Generic Sensor API: framework to build and deploy Sensor APIs for browsers
• Applied to motion sensors (accelorement, gyroscope, magnetometer), proximity detection, ambient light
• ()

Local interactions

• Web Bluetooth (()), WebNFC (()) allows to integrate with surrounding local devices
• Complementary to Physical Web integration of URLs in the real-world (, ())
• Later? geofencing, indoor location

The Web Needs You

Participate!

1. Bring use cases and requirements
2. Give feedback on specs as they develop
3. Improve specs
4. Help with adoption / implementation
5. Create new specs

Use case and requirements

• Existing spec? contact W3C Working Group by email
• No spec (or unsure if any)? WICG forum wicg.io

Feedback on specs

• Feedback groups are looking for:
  • Bugs
  • API Design
  • Inconsistencies / missing features
• File issues on github (all our specs are there: github.com/w3c

Improve specs

• Pull Requests on specs are ♥
• ⚠️️ we need IPR guarantees for substantive contributions

Adoption & implementation

• Specs are only useful if implemented
• Advocate for implementation in browser bug trackers
• Help with interoperability by providing test cases TestTheWebForward.org

Create specs

• No group working on something you need?
• Make it happen yourself!
  • WICG: Web Platform Incubator Community Group
  • W3C Community Groups
• Key is: build a community first, not a spec

e.g. Responsive Images

• Community of designers & developers had missed a way to manage responsive images, failed to convince existing Working Groups
• Started a Community Group, built use cases and requirements, built a draft spec, iterated (and suffered)
• Responsive Images now widely deployed

Get In Touch

[email protected]

@dontcallmeDOM

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