- From: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:46:37 +0200
- To: public-xg-app-backplane <public-xg-app-backplane@w3.org>
The modularization and abstraction is the bit that has me really excited, and that I think could provide a strong showcase. I didn't mention this in the teleconf, when Steven suggested redoing Google maps with XForms and SVG, but I think this showcase would become a lot stronger if we could do "redo <your favorite map> with XForms and SVG". And I think we have the basic technology for that. I haven't been looking too closely at other maping solutions than google, but is there anything else that has a public API? I should be able to plug it into my my bicycle demo, so that the end users have the option of selecting their favorite mapping software. Right now the glue (to connect the map to the XForms/SMIL State data model) is 20 lines of ugly JavaScript and nasty event handlers (depending on both the map widget and the XForms implementation used, to get at the data model), but eventually this should become a bit of XBL or some such. Other services that could be modularized are photo sharing (as shown in yesterday's demo), but also advertisement services (geographic or adword based), review/shopping sites, maybe social networking (if they have APIs). I've also been wanting to look at what's available in home automation but haven't had the time yet (think of a website that will automatically dim your lights and shut the curtains when you're viewing an adult movie, and works with 95% of the web-based home automation systems:-). -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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