Re: W3C Web Games Summary for February 9th meeting

Andre's talk is available here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Al_l-RUwnMD2U_Z7fOYpGdzOWT_PZQo4/view?usp=sharing


Thanks Andre!

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:54 AM Tom Greenaway <tomgreenaway@google.com>
wrote:

> 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:
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>    -
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>    Alicia Nie (聂蔚青) from Tencent spoke about the WeChat mini game runtime:
>    -
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>       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.
>       -
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>    Andre Bandarra from Google spoke about 3 runtimes for web content:
>    -
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>       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.
>       -
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>    Jacob Clark from the BBC spoke about their cross platform HTML5
>    runtime that they leverage across native and the web:
>    -
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>       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.
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>
> Some follow-up topics / requests:
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>    -
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>    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.
>    -
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>    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.
>    -
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>    A request for all the speakers (Alicia, Andre and Jacob) – would you
>    be able to share the decks you presented?
>    -
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>    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
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> Tom Greenaway | Developer Advocate | Chrome & Web | Google France
>