and W3C

Charles McCathieNevile

Chaals / Чаальз

Consultant, CTO office

Themes

• Why Join?
• What does?
• The standard pipeline
• Playing politics?

Why join?

• Propose work
• Join groups
• Anticipate news
• Shape standards
• …and shape W3C

Connect our community

in W3C

• HTML WG
• (and WHATWG)
• Web Apps WG
• Accessibility
• Patents/Standards
• Core Mob CG

in HTML

• Accessibility TF
• longdesc specification
• <main> element
• Please use <article>
• Finish HTML5!

in webapps

Prefetch

• Yandex Proposal
• In Browser
• Used in our sites
• Speeds loading
• Part of appcache?

in webapps

Prefetch

# comment lines
//example.org/other/servers
relative/urls.js
/sitewide/style.css

mail.ya.ru/prefetch.txt

in webapps

App packaging

• W3C Widget stack
• JSON - Yandex, FF, …
• Zip and install
• Appcache :(
• Standard APIs?

in HTML-a11y-TF

longdesc

<img ... longdesc="%URL">

• If it's not a URL?
• longdesc="#inThePage" ?
• alt="" longdesc="some.html" ?

to do

CSS animation

from auto values

Safe install?

What you really get

We also watch

• Multilingual Web
• Semantic Web (for schema.org)
• Security
• Payment
• Web ID
• ARIA

Upcoming work

• Web Intents (cloud-based "plugins")
• Components (custom elements)
• DRM (content protection)
• Adaptive streaming
• More Device APIs

And much much more…

What about?

• Common payment APIs
• Cross-device input
• Real File systems
• Push messaging
• Musical notation

What else is missing?

Driving W3C

Make specs, not bureacracy

• Changing the process
• A new license please
• More Patent Policy?
• TAG for the Web

WHAT about HTML?

WHAT-WG: a pressure group

• Smart people
• "Living Standards"

W3C

• "Legal" Recognition
• Patent Policy

The world needs "both kinds"

Спасибо

chaals@yandex-team.ru

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