W3C

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

Web platform

Packaging the Web

• Distribution
• Off-line availability
• User experience

W3C Widgets

Zip to Widget

• XML Configuration file
• .zip → .wgt
• application/widget

XML Configuration

Minimally

<widget
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets">
   <name>Hello World!</name>
</widget>

Additional elements

<icon src=”image.png” />
<author 
   email="dom@w3.org">Dom</author>
<description>Awesome widgets demonstration</description>
<content src=”index.html” />

Content

• Any content, even for start file
  e.g. SVG-based widgets
• Take advantage of latest Web technologies
  (HTML5, CSS3, APIs, …)

Declaring features

Access to advanced APIs
e.g. Geolocation:

<feature name="http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API" />

Network control

• Limit accessible Web sites and APIs
• Similar but different from “same-origin” policy

<access origin=”http://example.com/” />
<access origin=”http://example.com/” subdomains=”true”/>
<access origin=”*” />

Signature

• Integrity verification
• Origin
• Trust chain
• Based on XML Signature
• e.g. via WAC SDK

Localization

• Via locales/ directory, e.g. locales/fr/
• xml:lang for data in config.xml

Upcoming Web technologies

• HTML5 : new form elements, <canvas>, <video>
• APIs : Web Sockets, Web Workers, IndexedDB
• Device features : accelerometer, camera, microphone, contacts, calendar

Upcoming Web technologies

• Communication : Video/audio chat in the browser
• Web Notifications
• HTML Speech
• CSS Animations / Transformations / 3D

References

• Widgets spec
• Mobile @ W3C
• @dontcallmedom / dom@w3.org

Credits

• ZIP icon by Thvg