Time for your
Open Web
Platform
weeklysummary
dose. A bit of HTML5, a bit of Web apps, a pinch of Web
Architecture and HTTP and everything tied with a Web Education
ribbon.
HTML5
Charles Pritchard (Jumis) is asking if the
allow_popupattribute valueis ready for prime time.
IE has an implementation of it and Webkit has an ongoing patch. The
goal of the attribute is to allow pop up in some circumstances
where it is usually not possible, such as sandboxed iframes.
The
abbrattribute on
thelements
will
be addedto HTML5 specification.
There is a proposal for the
next version of HTMLto have a DOM attribute to
have access to the
metadata contained in images.
There is a meta perma-thread revolving along
longdescattribute but also
images map and accessibility. This discussion is not finished
yet and let's hope people will reach a common understanding on the
issue.
Web Apps
Robin Berjon proposed to
add screen orientation lockto the rechartering of Web Apps WG.
It is happening sometimes that an app will make sense only when the
screen has a specific orientation. On the other hand, your body
might have a position which is not the one perceived by the device.
For example when you are reading news lying down on the side, and
you screen suddenly rotates because of your position.
Should you be
able to install Web Apps on your computer. Tim Berners-Lee
(W3C) think so and argues for it.
Glen Shires (Google) proposes the
creation of a Community Group for the Speech Javascript
API.
The discussion on adding
Image.toBlob()is still
active . It is very similar to
Canvas.toBlob(). Some people wondered if in fact it
should not be more general and apply to any kind of binary
streams.
Education
Chris Mills (Opera Software), who is actively involved in
developing a
neutral repository for Open Web
documentationacross platforms, has outlined
how the group will move forward . You can join the
Web
Education Community Group.
HTTP
The discussion about the rechartering of HTTP WG is
still going on for working on the
new generation of HTTP. There is a lot of input on
what are the good strategies for the future. Some people share
their opinions about the
SPDY experiment .
Pretty sure that the
IETF WG F2F in
Paris(March 25-30, 2012) will be quite active. I will not be
there unfortunately.
Web Architecture
Larry Masinter (Adobe) sent a
proposal for working on MIME and the Web. The discussion
addresses the issues around registries which come quite often.
Basically how do we maintain the balance in between the flexibility
of the open Web and a control set of values avoiding
fragmentation.
Robin Berjon proposed a new draft about the
work on API Minimization. He is looking for feedback.
This column is written by
Karl Dubost ,
working in the
Developer Relations team at
Opera Software.