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Re: IG charter: modification suggestion - Scope & Decision

From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:12:17 +0200
Cc: "Kazuyuki Ashimura" <ashimura@w3.org>, "FUNAHASHI Yosuke" <yfuna@tomo-digi.co.jp>, 이현재 <hj08.lee@lge.com>
To: public-web-and-tv@w3.org, "Pfeffer, Heiko" <heiko.pfeffer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Message-ID: <op.vj7derc9wxe0ny@widsith.local>
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:08:47 +0200, Pfeffer, Heiko
<heiko.pfeffer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I just joined the list, so let me shortly introduce myself: my name is  
> Heiko and I'm working as project manager at the Fraunhofer Institut  
> FOKUS, where we are researching and developing cross-device and cross-OS  
> applications.
>
> We are thus especially interested in technologies and standards to  
> bridge the gap between application development for TV sets, classic  
> workstations, and mobile computing devices.

Hmm. Sounds a lot like Opera. Except we're not named after anyone famous :)

> What do you think about including a task similar to the following:
> "Exploration of technologies to discover and access device specific  
> resources and services to enable the development of applications that  
> can run on devices stemming from the TV as well as the Web domain."

I am not sure that I am parsing it correctly. I think you mean:

Look at device-capability detection. Use this information to match  
available services to a given device.

Am I on the right page here? (Or reading the right book?)

cheers

Chaals

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