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W3C Web Games Summary for February 9th meeting

From: Tom Greenaway <tomgreenaway@google.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 11:54:50 +0100
Message-ID: <CAMgVZKBLRG-brzoV0hHGWHSBYDJDcmH=D+Knxdxi60ScpN-a0g@mail.gmail.com>
To: public-games@w3.org
Greetings everyone!



Thank you to everyone who joined today’s Web Games call. It was great to
speak to you all and listen to the talks from the speakers!

🧐 The full minutes are available here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CQtWyYPOjLy7np7SW-exbW20SXv61YaStBBVi042oHc/edit>
🧐

Today’s call focused around web content embedded in native mobile
platforms. Some highlights:

   -

   Alicia Nie (聂蔚青) from Tencent spoke about the WeChat mini game runtime:
   -

      They believe by creating a subset of valid HTML, CSS and JS – and
      creating additional APIs – they’ve been able to achieve a more optimised
      runtime specifically for games.
      -

   Andre Bandarra from Google spoke about 3 runtimes for web content:
   -

      Andre walked us through the major differences of three APIs available
      on Android for embedding web content: WebView, Chrome Custom Tabs and
      Trusted Web Activities. He also hinted at the potential of a future API
      called WebLayer
      <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/weblayer/README.md>
      that might be the best of both worlds for WebViews and games.
      -

   Jacob Clark from the BBC spoke about their cross platform HTML5 runtime
   that they leverage across native and the web:
   -

      This talk highlighted some of the remaining blockers that the BBC
      feel prevent them from fully embracing Trusted Web Activities as their
      runtime for games – specifically around durable storage and
other APIs such
      as haptic feedback.


Some follow-up topics / requests:

   -

   Alicia from Tencent suggested they can provide benchmarks comparing the
   performance of their mini game runtime with the embedded webviews of the
   iOS and Android platforms.
   -

   Jacob it would be great if you could provide some more details on the
   exact requirements you’re looking for in relation to the durable storage
   topic that you raised.
   -

   A request for all the speakers (Alicia, Andre and Jacob) – would you be
   able to share the decks you presented?
   -

   A question for Alicia, are you happy for us to ask more in-depth
   technical questions on the mailing list regarding your
   engine/runtime/framework works? This might be a better format for digging
   into the details.


Our next meeting will be on April 13th at an EMEA+AMER friendly time.
Likely 9am PST (6pm CET).

Thank you everyone and especially the speakers!


Cheers

Francois, Noël and Tom

Tom Greenaway | Developer Advocate | Chrome & Web | Google France
Received on Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:55:22 UTC

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