Re: What is the "open web" ?

> > I would think it very weird if the web platform came up with a
> > capability which _required_ the use of specifically 3G access to the
> > Internet.
>
> Sure, but one can easily imagine APIs that expose capabilities that
> are only available on 3G/4G wireless networks. Those standards are
> full of stuff that could reasonably be subject to application control.
> Maybe we could take exposing the available mobile networks as an
> example ?
>
No, since 3G/4G wireless networks are several levels down on the OSI stack,
so web pages and HTML should be transparent to them and only use things
like "online", "offline", "bandwidth"... that are also available for
ethernet networks, whose I think exists open hardware implementations, and
I think there're also for some wireless chips.

The same happens with graphic cards and WebGL: WebGL it's only a wrapper
for OpenGL, that can work on hardware or rendered on software, and also you
have DirectX. I don't know why graphic cards and their native open and
closed drivers matters here, really...