WebAPI/2013-10-15
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WebAPI Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2013-10-15 - 8:00 am Pacific
- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98413
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- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
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- WebAPI Vidyo Room / London-Allo Allo / Toronto-Spadina
- Join irc.mozilla.org #webapi for back channel
Notes below archived from etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes
Notes
Discussion about providing a WebSerial API
- motivation: something like http://codebender.cc/ for Arduino from the web
- http://bit.ly/19EAbJc (since etherpad doesn't like # in URLs)
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/WebSerial
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926940
- Originally conceived after this discussion:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674718 <-- WebUSB discussion
- probably a good candidate for the W3C DAP group: http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
- We also have a discussion about serial port API at Brussels' summit. It is a interest topic for controlling small devices with WEB. For example, cowork with devices made by Arduino.
- Marcos proposed implementing this on top of a USB manager which itself could be limited to certain device classes/types and serial ports
- I think serial port is really independent from USB. Although there are lot serial chips are over USB (like FT232) -- Thinker
- discussion touched on concerns about generality of USB API for the web, potential lifetime of USB, serial ports, etc
- Chrome's implementation for Chrome Apps http://developer.chrome.com/apps/serial.html
Fernando and I (Gene) can work together to draft the Network Information API
- Hope to follow up the current progress of this API
- Who is the contact window in the W3C DAP group?
- Andrew to email DAP chair and introduce Gene & ferjm
- annevk expressed concerns about usefulness of this API since it's *hard* to know about metered connections; really we need full integration with carrier, etc.
- Travis offered a potential solution: default to downloading lighter weight assets on a mobile connection vs. wifi and allow users to invert the default
- Gene and ferjm will shepherd this and help make decision about pursuing it or not
- Previous discussions
- web performance list - http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
- public-device-apis@w3c.org - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2013Jan/0071.html
A plan is being worked on to get IDB in workers ASAP
- goal is end of 2013
- more concrete plan later this week
annevk and marcosc at http://fronteers.nl/congres/2013 last week
- good conference, lots of excitement about direction of the web, our work, etc.
annevk and bent briefly discussed memory concerns and other aspects of message ports and workers
- needs more discussion, use cases, etc.
