The Web:
a platform for applications
on connected devices

Future of Mobile Web Application - W3C Device API Day 2011
17 March 2011, COEX, Seoul, Korea

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
<dom@w3.org>
@dontcallmedom

W3C

Photo of Tim Berners Lee

Founded by the inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee
Consortium of 320+ Members worldwide
Creating Royalty-Free standards and guidelines for the Web

W3C & Mobile

Vision: “Web on Everything”
mobile-related work for >10 years
Mobile Web Initiative started in 2005

MobiWebApp

W3C Mobile Web Applications groups

HTML
Web Applications
Device APIs & Policy
Geolocation
Web Notification
Web Events
Audio (soon)
Web Real Time Communication (proposed)
SVG
CSS

Technologies for mobile Web apps

Graphics

SVG
HTML5 <canvas>
CSS3, incl. animations and transitions
WOFF

Multimedia

HTML5 <video> & <audio>
HTML Media Capture and Media Capture API
Canvas API
Upcoming Audio API work

Forms

with HTML5

<input type="date">
<input type="tel"> (and email, url)
pattern attribute
placeholder attribute
<datalist>

User Interactions

Touch events (ontouchstart)
Intent-based events (not started)
Vibration (under consideration)
Notification
HTML Speech (exploratory)

Data Storage

Web Storage
File APIs (read/write/file system)
Indexed Database
Contacts API
Calendar API

Sensors and Hardware integration

Geolocation
Accelerometer
Generic sensors
Camera & microphone

Network

XMLHttpRequest (level 1 & 2)
CORS
Server-sent events
Web Socket
HTML5 onLine state
Network characteristics

Communication

Messaging API
HTML5 Web Messaging (inter-app)
P2P Connections (under consideration)

Packaging

HTML5 Application cache
Widgets

Performance

Navigation Timing
Web workers
Best Practices

Beyond mobile: connected devices

Web & TV Workshops
Web & TV Interest Group
Webinos EU project

Thanks

Questions and feedback welcome!

dom@w3.org / @dontcallmedom