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Supporting window transparency - challenges and opportunities
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  • Tentative
  • Breakout Sessions

Meeting

Event details

Date:
– Japan Standard Time
Status:
Tentative
Location:
R07
Participants:
Andrew Dekker
Big meeting:
TPAC 2025 (Calendar)

In this session we would like to spend time to have an open conversation about the complexities and opportunities for allowing window transparency for web content (in both browsers and web renderers more generally). The web is the most versatile UI framework of all time, but is currently walled within a set of rectangles. The possibilities when breaking out of this are endless (especially as we move to new computing platforms), but there are real and critical challenges that must be addressed. We hope this session can help start to collate a cohesive list of these considerations, as well as start to work towards a set of guidelines that can help guide future approaches for browser developers.

Agenda

Chairs:
Andrew Dekker

Description:
In this session we would like to spend time to have an open conversation about the complexities and opportunities for allowing window transparency for web content (in both browsers and web renderers more generally). The web is the most versatile UI framework of all time, but is currently walled within a set of rectangles. The possibilities when breaking out of this are endless (especially as we move to new computing platforms), but there are real and critical challenges that must be addressed. We hope this session can help start to collate a cohesive list of these considerations, as well as start to work towards a set of guidelines that can help guide future approaches for browser developers.

Goal(s):
Make progress towards supporting transparent windows for web content

Agenda:
Session goals:

  • Understand the opportunities presented by transparent web content windows, in Browsers, PWAs and embedded renders (webviews)
  • Establish a set of challenges that need to be addressed for transparent windows to work (security, usability, interaction, programming APIs, performance)
  • Work towards a framework of recommendations, considerations and approaches for builders of these systems to support such content.

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