.@w3c launched a couple of months ago the #ImmersiveWeb#WorkingGroup to enable Augmented and Virtual reality (#XR) on the Web. In this short first video, @Lady_Ada_King explains why Web & XR are a match made in heaven: vimeo.com/311185799
Thanks to @webcastors for shooting the video during the #meetupw3.org/2018/10/Meetup/. And thanks to Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd. for creating the English transcripts and Chinese subtitles.
Did you miss the @w3c devmeetup in Lyon in 2018? Now is a good time to catch up! #w3cdevs2018
Our first speaker, Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew, presented "The new #CSS layout", and here is the video: vimeo.com/303217091
🔮 What’s the future of WebAssembly?
And how can WebAssembly level up—both inside and outside the browser?
Here’s a skill tree to lay it all out → hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/we…
#WebAssembly is also expected to play a role in the server-side world: as a universal bytecode, it provides tantalizing opportunities for deploying #CloudServices
It has been opening new roads in terms of what needs to be provided by native browser code vs shipped by app #developers. Most recently, @tsahil reported on its possible impact on #WebRTC for e.g. codec distribution
#webassembly is a pretty big deal for the Web - it provides a compact, fast-to-parse, fast-to-run binary byte code for the Web, in the right conditions.
It complements #JavaScript for tasks that are CPU intensive, and facilitates porting of non-JS code bases (e.g. game engines)
”In cases where DOM manipulations would cause jank, this [proposed API] instead allows the user-agent to split up the work across several frames, yielding for script and user interactions. When the updates are finished processing, the result is displayed without jank.”
For example, native apps can display badges next to their icon to notify users about incoming events, pending messages, etc. Soon doable in Web apps too? Check the Badging #API in the #roadmap: w3.org/2018/12/web-roadmaps/…
Badging for App Icons? Yes please🙌
The Badging API is a new API that lets installed web apps to set an application-wide badge...displayed on a OS specific place (such as the shelf or home screen)‼
@petele explains what it is and how you can use them 👉 developers.google.com/web/up…
28 Jan-2 Feb: The @w3c Web of Things meetings take place @SiemensWoT, in #Princeton 🇺🇸. The #plugfest, 28-30 Jan., is open to all implementers and the Open Day is scheduled for 30 Jan. Full details at: w3.org/WoT/IG/wiki/F2F_meeti…