TPAC/2014/session-after5

This document is for the After (HTML) 5 - Web Standards Ecosystem in 2024 session that was held at TPAC2014 on 29 October. This session will use a panel format and audience participation is expected and encouraged.

The gist of the session is to discuss what is the Web we want in 2024 and what is the optimal Web standards ecosystem to help achieve that?. See the Scope below for more information.

Room = CA Salon 9

IRC channel = #after5

Scope

Discussion topics and questions include:

• Is Robin's After 5 vision deserving of a Nobel Prize and/or is that dude totally bonkers?

• What do we expect to be the major Web interoperability problems over the next ten years that will need some type of open standardization effort to help solve?

• Priorities to build a Web we want
  • To facilitate the evolution of the Web and Web standards development, what should be done differently now(ish)?
  • What are the more immediate high priorities, versus more long term activities?
  • What new activities will be needed (f.ex. to fill Web standards gaps)?
  • What current activities don't help or are harmful to the Web's evolution?

Background materials:

• Web 2024 ; by Robin Berjon (2014-07-02)
• Web 2024 – A response to Robin Berjon’s post; by Marcos Cáceres (2014-07-10)
• Web in 2024; by Felix Sasaki and Philippe Le Hégaret; this is a WorkInProgress
• After 5; Robin Berjon's proposal for the evolution to the HTML standard

Participants

• Chair: Art Barstow

• Panelists confirmed: Marcos Cáceres (Mozilla), Robin Berjon (representing Robin), Brian Kardell (Apollo Education Group, jQuery, Extensible Web CG).

Summary

The session focused on Robin's After 5 thoughts about how to evolve the W3C's HTML5 standard. Overall, the group supported Robin's proposal although a few reservations were expressed.

Minutes

The session minutes. Thanks to Coralie Mercier for being a totally awesome Scribe!