Advisory Committee Presentation

Hi all,

I was presenting today my summary of our discussions in this task force
so far to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC), with the double goal of
informing the AC about the status of our work and getting their input on
it.

The slides I used to accompany that presentation are available at:
http://www.w3.org/2013/Talks/dhm-closingthegap/#%281%29

Given the relative lack of answer to my previous message, I took some
liberties in the presenting the outcome of the task force, while leaving
plenty of room for us to assess the priorities we want to recommend for
adoption by the W3C management in July.

Overall, the presentation triggered quite a bit of discussion (which I
think is a good sign of the importance of the topic), and in general,
positive feedback on the topics we've raised and the approaches we've
pursued.

Among the salient points from that feedback:
* getting off-line right is clearly very high priority, possibly the
most important one

* the landscape document (which to me is the natural evolution of what
Scott started) is an important piece in setting up the scene, agreeing
on a common terminology, and defining the parameters that define the
continuum of Web apps types, but a continuum that should probably extend
up to native apps; an interesting point that emerged from this was that
while it probably doesn't make sense to divide the world between what
Web apps are for and native apps are for, defining the space in this
continuum where Web apps are the most likely to gain traction is a good
way to define our priorities

* relying on the beacon API for deferred uploads is a big faith leap

* the common focus of the Technical Architecture Group (TAG) and our
work on easing developers input is a good sign to me

Philippe Le Hégaret, who was in charge of the headlight task force
focusing on performance, also shared the results of their work in slides
that are also publicly available:
http://www.w3.org/2013/Talks/0610-performance/
Given the potential proximity and overlap with our work, I thought I
would also mention them.

As always, further input and feedback would be great; once I'm back from
travel (or before that if I find the time), I'll try to gather our focus
one more time to prioritize our list of ideas in preparation for the W3C
management meeting in July.

Thanks all for your input so far; be sure that your work was highly
valued by participants to the meeting (at least in so far as I
represented it well enough)!

Dom

Received on Monday, 10 June 2013 13:17:02 UTC