first steps!

Hi guys, its early days and there is a whole lot of fun to be had here. =)

The name 'Native Web Apps' was very deliberate and, yes, somewhat
sensationalizing. Dominique mentioned on the first blog post by Marcos
that we should step back and look at the big picture first. Figure out
the current landscape and what do we hope to achieve with this group.

I see this group as a really great opportunity to not only experiment
with the standards process but as our opportunity to push the
boundaries of what we perceive the web to be. We can be a playground
for existing apis and conceptualize/prototype new ones.

Topics I'm excited about:

- sensor apis
- data apis and web intents
- api privileges / capabilities
- packaging, signing and distribution
- javascript as a compilation target and module reuse

Beyond even these, rather ambitious, topics I would also like to see
this group rethink existing APIs. The web as it is standardized today
is verbose and has poor symmetry requiring unnecessary boilerplate and
libraries. I envision a future were all we've learned as a community
gets incorporated to the platform --- falling back to polyfills and
shims has worked well so far but we very much should free ourselves of
those hacks and look to what the web as a first class development
platform would look like.

Brian LeRoux, Nitobi Software
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Received on Friday, 19 August 2011 16:32:00 UTC